{"product_id":"sir-john-a-9781772012149","title":"Sir John A.","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Drew Hayden Taylor\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn uproariously funny and sharply inquisitive new play from one of Canada's leading Indigenous playwrights, \u003cem\u003eSir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e explores the possibility of reconciliation between Peoples and urgently questions past and contemporary forms of Canadian colonialism. Taylor's twenty-seventh play, \u003cem\u003eSir John A\u003c\/em\u003e's characters include Canada's infamous first Prime Minister, red-nosed and pompous, full of patriarchal contempt for those \"strange and perplexing Indians,\" and his contemporary accusers: two Ojibway men and a soul-searching white woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBobby Rabbit, \u003cem\u003eSir John A\u003c\/em\u003e's irked, Anishinaabe main character, in a fit of anger and revenge, convinces his friend Hugh to accompany him on a \"sojourn of justice\" to dig up Sir John A. Macdonald's bones and hold them for ransom. Decades before, a medicine pouch belonging to Bobby's grandfather was taken away by the staff of the residential school where he was detained. The precious object was sent to a British Museum exhibition room for conservation - and now Bobby wants it repatriated. Along the way the pair pick up Anya, a young, bright, and opinionated woman fleeing a bad breakup, with conflicting ideas about Sir John A's place in Canadian history. Not to be left out of the argument, Canada's first Prime Minister, broadcasting live from nineteenth-century Ottawa, shows up with opinions of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful satire, a creative debate about the past violences of colonial racism and the as yet untested potentiality of restoring harmony between Peoples in Canada. A contemporary classic by Taylor!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCast of 1 woman and 3 men\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Talonbooks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47573837873303,"sku":"9781772012149","price":1183.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781772012149.webp?v=1774893920","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sir-john-a-9781772012149","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}