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Marcie Rendon

MARCIE RENDON  (1952 - )

 Nationality:    Anishinabe
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 Bring the Children Home         Free Frybread         Friends         Predator/Prey         Rough-Face Girl         Sacajawea         SongCatcher: Native perspective of the life of Frances Densmore,         Urban Rez

Bring the Children Home

Synopsis:
Play is set in the present. It is a modern-day Native American myth about the importance of 'naming ceremony' and young peoples need for responsible family. As writer, it is my hope that with the exception of the Grandmother, Matilda and Maigun, all other characters could be played by either male or female. The chorus (which could be many or few) from the porch is hip hop/rap.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Pillsbury House Theater; Mpls., MN    1996

Organisations:
Child's Play Theatre

1st Published:
Footpaths & Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights archive; edited by Shirley Huston-Findley & Rebecca Howard; University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor,, 2008   -

Music:
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Genre:
Native American; contemporary; children's

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  Crow & Eagle - spirits present throughout play; Windigo - spirit symbolizing decay/cannibalism of western society; Chorus of youth

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Free Frybread

Synopsis:
Just what can you do on stage with a beaded leather thong bikini? From the Loring Park fringe festival to the Bryant-Lake Bowl, raving Natives Productions bring you the "free frybread telethon." The free frybread telethon is an evening of song, dance and performance art where nationally-known and locally-grown native talent ignite the stage for an hour-and-a-half. You join the performance by becoming a member of the telethon studio audience, watching the volunteer telephone operators take pledges to free frybread and laughing along with the telethon's host and guest performers.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis Fringe Festival    1999

Organisations:
Raving Native Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Native American; humor

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Friends

Synopsis:
A grandmother, mother and granddaughter discuss the meaning of the little things in life - relationships, family and lice.

Notes:
Winner of 2008 Native American Radio Award And will be published in An Anthology on modern And contemporary dramatic explorations of motherhood, to be edited by: Sheila Rabillard, University of Victoria And Karen Bamford, Mount Allison University

1st Produced:
Patrick's Cabaret; Minneapolis    2007

Organisations:
Raving Native Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
humor; Native American Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Predator/Prey

Synopsis:
A very common, very untraditional tale about urban vs nature - greed vs balance.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Playwright Center, Minneapolis, MN.    2004

Organisations:
OffLeash Area

1st Published:
Excerpted as: a very common, very untraditional tale. . .Yellow Medicine Review; Southwest Minnesota State Universtiy, Marshall, MN, Winter 2007   -

Music:
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Genre:
Dance/movement

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  Crows - wolves -

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Rough-Face Girl

Synopsis:
Based on an old Micmac legend, Rough-Face Girl is the story of a young Micmac woman who in the midst of family conflict and hardship sees the beauty in the world around her. Three sisters are attempting to survive after their father's death. The two older sisters are angry and mean, mistreating their youngest sister, Dos. In an attempt to escape their plight, the two older sisters set off to marry the Invisible One. Only the woman who can truly see him will marry him. The Invisible One is guarded by his Sister, whose job it is to determine which woman really is capable of seeing him. After the two older sisters fail in their attempt to see him, Dos sets out on her own quest to marry him, with her sister's taunting her all the way. Along the way, Dos helps them heal from the grief of their father's death. Dos sees beauty all around her and consequently is able to see the Invisible One and marry him. Rather than reject her family she insures that they too will share in the goodness of her life.

Notes:
http://aireptheatre.org

1st Produced:
Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD    2001

Organisations:
The American Indian Repertory Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Native American; children's; traditional story

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sacajawea

Synopsis:
Sacajawea's story told from her perspective as a young Shoshone woman trying to return home.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre, Fargo North, Dakota    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Native American; children; historical, 60 min

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  3            Other:  -

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SongCatcher: Native perspective of the life of Frances Densmore,

Synopsis:
A young Native couple are living together in an apartment. Jack, who was raised to go to school and work instead of immersed in the culture, is easy-going, and is more interested in singing at the pow-wow drum than holding a job. He is actively searching for his Native heritage through the drum and is convinced that "his song" is in Frances Densmore's book. His girlfriend, Chris, works to support both of them, hauling garbage, and is often tired and crabby. She get's short-tempered with Jack's obsession with the drum and Frances Densmore. Spirit Woman tries to give Jack his song, but he is certain what he is looking for is in Frances' book. As he searches harder and harder, Frances, her family, Lizzie, Old Man Spirit and Spirit Woman literally take over Chris and Jack's apartment - as spirits and in dreams. When Jack dreams he is Geronimo and Frances stole his soul at the World's Fair, Jack becomes depressed and morose. Chris asks Bill to perform a healing ceremony for them. During the ceremony we see Frances recording Main'gans' songs and the tragic consequence he paid. Jack receives his song from Spirit Woman and their apartment is cleared of spirits.

Notes:
Full-length play written so that two worlds - the contemporary world And the spirit world - exist simultaneously on stage.

1st Produced:
Great American History Theatre, St. Paul, MN    1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Los Angeles, California, 2003   -

Music:
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Genre:
Native American; contemporary drama based on historical fact

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  10            Other:  doubling possible

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Urban Rez

Synopsis:
Movement based poetry performance piece about young modern native people in the urban rez

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Staged Reading: American Indian Community House Theater, NYC, NY    2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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