Synopsis
Dust Eaters
$9.99
Published by Dramatic Publishing
2 Male 2 Female
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
Unit set - runs about 105 minutes