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Dust Eaters

Dust Eaters

By Julie Jensen

Product Code: D92000

  • Full-length Play
  • Drama
  • Cast size: 2 to 3m., 2 to 4w. (Includes 1 Native American m. and 1 to 2 Native American w.)

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* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

$9.95 /script

Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

In stock

Synopsis

Dust Eaters is an intimate look at two families, one white, one Native American, living side by side in the west desert of Utah. The play covers a total of seven generations, from 1877 to the present. Each scene—a mini-drama of its own—takes place 20 years later than the one before, all in the same small house. We follow the life of Albertine who begins as a defiant 10-year-old Goshute girl living with a white family on a ranch next to her tribe's ancestral land. We trace the interdependence and resentment, the love and denial of the two families. In the end Albertine's great-grandchildren are grappling with a decision to store high-level nuclear waste on their reservation. The play is a chamber history that defines the past through everyday, intimate human detail and looks at the assumptions behind both cultural points of view. It presents history as we see our own personal history, as a life lived in the wake of seminal events. Supported by the National Theatre Artist Residency Program, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the Steinberg New Play Award for best new play produced outside New York.

Details

  • Status

    In stock

  • Type of Show Full-length Play
  • Product Code D92000
  • Cast Size 4
  • Min. Royalty Rate $85/perf
  • Cost $9.95
  • Approx. Run Time 105 min

Categories

  • Target Audience Middle School | High School | College and Adult | Family (all ages) | Senior Adults
  • Performing Group College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
  • Genre Drama
  • ISBN(13) 9781583423592
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.

Media Reviews

"Dust Eaters goes to the very heart of White/Native American relations, of past and present injustices, of white privilege and power, and of environmental racism." -Catalyst

"A wonderful combination of sharply honed dialogue with Native American myth and ritual." -The Salt Lake Tribune

"Jensen's most moving, emotionally charged drama yet." -Deseret News