Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

Grace, a Native girl adopted by a White family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother's funeral

Afraid of opening old wounds, Grace must find a place where the culture of her past can feed the truth of her present

"The magic of good writing in my mind is to create the dramas of ordinary peoples' lives, to unfold them, and to keep the historical conditions from which they arise buried underneath in a way that jostles up the characters you have created

Drew Hayden Taylor's Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth does this very well. He does it in a way that is respectful of all the characters, men and women, and in a way that remains tender toward the society which has created the horror of loss" ~ Lee Maracle, from the Foreword

"This is a fine show ... thanks to Drew Hayden Taylor's writing ... He can make you laugh one minute, then cry the next, and leaves you with lines and images that you will remember long after the curtain comes down This is not just a great Native production. This is a great production. Period" ~ Richard Ouzounian, CBC