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Marie Clements
Metis

Plays in the Archive

Age of Iron, (typescript, 81 pp.) Three acts. 7W 7M 4M/W Chorus.
The Girl Who Swam Forever, Revised draft, 1/03/97 (typescript, 31 pp.) One act. 2W 2M. Synopsis
Now Look What You Made Me Do, (typescript, 36 pp.) One act. 5W 4M 1G. Synopsis
Urban Tattoo, Working draft (typescript, 16 pp.). One act. 1W. Productions: Native Voices in New York, August 1996; Women in View Festival, Vancouver, BC, February 26 and March 1, 1998. Image / Production notice

Other Plays and Publications

"The Unnatural and Accidental Women". Canadian Theatre Review no. 101 (Winter 2000): 53-88.
"The Age of Iron" (excerpt). Taking the Stage: Selections from Plays by Canadian Women. Ed. Cynthia Zimmerman. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1995.
The Unnatural and Accidental Women. Vancouver: Talon Books, 2005.
Burning Vision. Vancouver: Talon Books, 2003.
"Age of Iron." In DraMetis: Three Metis Plays. Penticton, BC: Theytus Books, 2001. Pp. 192-273.

Articles, Reviews, Links

Gilbert, Reid. "'Shine on Us, Grandmother Moon': Coding in Canadian First Nations Drama." Theatre Research International 21, no. 1 (1996): 24.
Hopkins, Zoe Leigh. "Well-Written, Well-Performed Tragic Tale." Rev. of The Unnatural and Accidental Women. Raven's Eye 4, no. 7 (November 2000): 7.
Lin, Brian. "Tuning into Humanity with Burning Vision." Rev. of Burning Vision. Raven's Eye 5, no. 1 (April 2002): 8.
Gilbert, Reid. "Marie Clements's The Unnatural and Accidental Women: 'Denaturalizing' Genre." Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches Theatrales au Canada 24, no. 1-2 (2003): 125-46.
Read, Jennifer. "Marie Clements's Monstrous Visions." Canadian Theatre Review no. 120 (Fall 2004): 19-23.
"Museum Commissions Metis Playwright." American Indian Report 20, no. 5 (February 2004): 5.

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