WEEK 15: The Rez Sisters
The Rez Sisters

Week #15

... I will not give sleep
to mine eyes,
or slumber to mine eyelids.


Old Testament


EXTRA...EXTRA
WORTH A LOOK
Tomson Highway's Web Page

  1. Why is it significant that the play begins on a roof?

  2. Philomena is fascinated with the fantasy of buying a new white toilet. This becomes an important motif in the play; why did Highway pick a toilet as the object of her dreams? What is the overall meaning inherent in this motif?

  3. Why is Zhaboonigan's speech about getting sexually abused an important moment in the play?

  4. What is the significance of the silence that occurs right after Annie says that they will be the only Indians at the Bingo game (p. 69)?

  5. What are some examples of humor in the play?

  6. Where do we see the collision of white and red cultures in the play?

  7. Why can only Zhaboonigan and Marie-Adele see Nanabush?

  8. What's the significance that the play ends the same way it began--with Pelajia and Philomena up on the roof?

  9. The very last note of the play is seeing Nanabush "landing" on Pelajia's roof, dancing to the beat of her hammer. What is the significance of this ending?

  10. So how do we feel (where are we left) at the end of this play?

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