The Baby Blues
The Baby Blues is Drew Hayden Taylor’s highly wrought farce of patrimony in a stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of ‘fancy dancers’ of every stripe on the pow wow trail. In juxtaposing three generations of careless wandering hedonists, progenitors of a string of offspring from their six-night stands, with their erstwhile naïve women partners who are always left holding the bag, the ‘big questions’ of heritage, family, cultural context and personal identity are ruthlessly stripped of their conventional meanings and become so much useless, embarrassing roadkill on the highway of life.
Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
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Awards & Recognitions
- 1996 - First prize ($500) Native Playwrights Award, sponsored by the University of Alaska, Anchorage for Baby Blues
Reviews
“Drew Hayden Taylor sets up a simple premise with hilarious results …social satire extending far beyond just sex, largely it looks at stereotypes in General and laughs at them …there are so many laughs injected into this play that it is great fun overall. Taylor has a good feel for dialogue, and it reads very smoothly wight he characters really coming to life. Relax, kick your feet up, and enjoy The Baby Blues.”
“Taylor’s goal in this play is to showcase the Native sense of humour, which he succeeds at doing… It’s a Native soap opera but with a sense of humour …with all the negative stories in the mainstream press about Aboriginal people, Taylor does a great service by writing a humorous play.”
“Taylor’s First Nations voice is sardonic, self-referential, and humourous… It’s a merry-go-round worthy of any multi-doored British sex farce. Taylor is beautifully at home with his Native situation and caps the hilarity by including a character named Summer… Taylor’s take on the situation is wicked and clever.”
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