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Salmonberry: Production
History
Salmonberry: A West Coast fairy tale
Hornby Island, British Columbia, June 2001
Cornelia Hoogland, Director, Hornby Island Elementary School,
Fultonvale Junior High School, Sherwood Park, Alberta, May 2000
Dustin Maloney, Director
A rehearsed reading of Salmonberry: A West Coast fairy tale at
the International Women Playwrights
Conference in Athens, Greece, October
synopsis link
Synopsis of Play: Her mother dead, her father absent, Salmonberry
befriends an ornery seal. Jealous stepmother arrives and murders
Teabag the seal. Alienated and lonely, Salmonberry cultivates
her mother-taught gifts of gardening and cooking. Harvest dance
announced, stepmother and daughter (hand puppet) go. With help
Salmonberry attends festival, loses one of a pair of glass floats
that her mother and Teabag have given her. A Coast Salish prince
finds the ball and determines to find the story of the glass float,
and thus the owner. Many storytelling antics later, the owner
is identified and a friendship centered on storytelling and a
vegetarian restaurant follows.
The prince in this fairy tale is Native. Salmonberry, a Cinderella
character, is the daughter of immigrants. The setting, the west
coast of North America, has its own seal, Teabag. The stepmother,
bent on destruction, isn’t ultimately victorious, and Salmonberry
as well as Teabag make unexpected come-backs.synopsis link end
characters and staging link
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