Tired of losing at Bingo, a group of seven sisters band together to beat the system and secure their financial future. Evoking the harsh realities and impossible dreams that come to life on Canada's Native reserves, The Rez Sisters is at once witty and disturbing. It captures the true nature of reserve life in its strange contradictions of old and new, tradition and distress. Tomson Highway, a Native Canadian from Northern Manitoba, brings these women to life in a play you'll want to stage as soon as you've finished reading it.

Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play

Nominated for the Governor General''s Award

This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD and a chance to
win a way out of a tortured life.

The Rez Sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the creative voice of Native theatre and writing in Canada today.

Highway was born December 6, 1951 in northwest Manitoba. He did not learn to speak English until he was six years old. In high school, he was considered to be a musical prodigy, and he later attended the University of Western Ontario where he obtained degrees in both music and English. Tomson then spent two years at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Music studying piano. He went on to study to be a concert pianist in London under William Aide In addition to writing plays, he has worked as a producer, actor and stage manager. Before his career in theatre, he spent seven years working with Aboriginal organizations. His Native Performing Arts Company is Toronto's only professional Aboriginal theatre company. Highway's awards include the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for the 1987-88 season and the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.