Someday
The story in SOMEDAY, though told through fictional characters and full of Taylor’s distinctive wit and humour, is based on the real-life tragedies suffered by many Native Canadian families. Anne Wabung’s daughter was taken away by children’s aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is Christmastime 35 years later, and Anne’s yearning to see her now-grown daughter is stronger than ever. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither women are fulfilled. The setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native people as the “scoop-up” of the 1950s and 1960s. SOMEDAY is an entertaining, humourous, and spirited play that packs an intense emotional wallop.
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“A short, tight work of finely calculated tension and economy, SOMEDAY is an effective play that develops the inherent power of a desolating, all too well-known scenario…(Taylor) has mastered his craft and is able to construct drama in which word and expression, as well as the medium of time itself are selected and modelled; in which expression is not a function of description, but the product of a dynamic internal and exclusive cycle of language, gesture and response…Taylor’s craft and feeling for theatre are of a depth and subtlety sufficient to contain as well as project a message of explosive power…Tension generated by the grinding of nested contexts of Native and White perception as represented within the family is handled intelligently and sensitivity as is the strip of comedy injected by the mother’s lottery win…SOMEDAY will be an especially powerful read for those who care about Canadian drama.”
“One of the 50 Essential Canadian Plays”
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