DARRELL DENNIS: TWO PLAYS
TALES OF AN URBAN INDIAN
THE TRICKSTER OF THIRD AVEM/E EAST

“At its best, Dennis’s humour comes tous ... Dennis has a tough, sometimes poi-
at an angle, opening our hearts with laugh- gnant tale to tell, he does so with flare and
ter so that we’ll let in something painful or humour.”
tender.” —Robert Crew, Toronto Star
—Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight . . , .
“Energetic, exciting and entirely original,

“Harrowing and Funny” this amazing race against time by a young

—Kamal Al-Solaylee, The Globe and Mail ~man facing cultural oblivion does every-
thing right in mixing laughter and tears to
engage our brains.”

—Peter Birnie, The Vancouver Sun

“Dennis is a writer and performer to keep
your eye on.”
—Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine

Two humorous and heartbreaking plays that focus
on the lives of young, urban Aboriginals.

Tales of an Urban Indian is a one-person play that
follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas,
a young Native man who moves from his rural
reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This dark
comedy examines the issues of race, identity, and
assimilation that drive young, native males to
self-destruction.

In The Trickster of Third Avenue East, Roger and
Mary are spiralling out of control but are too scared to
let each other go. Enter J.C., a mysterious visitor who
turns their lives upside down and forces them to
confront their darkest secrets. J.C. pushes Roger and
Mary into the realm of the supernatural and past the
brink of sanity.

’ PLAYWRIGHTS
CANADA PRESS
Cover painting Tales of an Urban In-
dian by Luke J. Parnell,