{"product_id":"sir-john-a-9781772012149","title":"Sir John A.","description":"\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\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781772012149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.30d","brand":"Drew Hayden Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43103899713717,"sku":"9781772012149","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f72a9fbf-3a03-47fb-9e14-4b35112beb7a.jpg?v=1693282174","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sir-john-a-9781772012149","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}