Drew Hayden Taylor is prolific and political – TheSpec.com

Taylor, an Ojibway from Curve Lake First Nation, 25 kilometres north of Peterborough, has written novels, short stories, magazine and newspaper articles, as well as 70 plays.

Drew Hayden Taylor is an award-winning playwright with more than 70 plays to his credit. You might call him the Indigenous Norm Foster. Prolific and political in his work, he writes specifically of the Indigenous spirit. Yet, Taylor would be the first to suggest there is universality in his work.

“All my projects are related to Native people. That’s my upbringing and my world. But I have people of other cultures in my life and I put them into my plays too. I normally write from an Anishinaabe perspective,” he says, “but with my play ‘Crees in the Caribbean,’ I am obviously walking the Cree path. It says so in the title.”

Taylor’s play is about a senior First Nations couple celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary with a trip to a resort in Mexico. It proves a bit of a culture shock to them as well as a learning experience.

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