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“Between Two Knees” is the first play from the Native comedy troupe, the 1491s. It’s at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon through Oct. 27. It’s a biting comedy that the Seattle Times calls “a loose pastiche of irreverent historical satire.” We’ll hear from the 1491s about using comedy and live theater to open a dialogue about systematic oppression.
Guests:
Dallas Goldtooth (Diné and Dakota) – Keep it in the Ground campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network
Sterlin Harjo (Muskogee and Seminole)
Migizi Pensoneau (Ponca and Ojibwe)
Bobby Wilson (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota)
Break 1 Music: NDN Kars (Remix) (song) A Tribe Called Red & Keith Secola (artist) NDN Kars (Remix) (single)
Break 2 Music: Niizh Straight (song) Niizhoo Sullivan (artist) Rez Kid Rhythm (album)
Laughed while it hurt and until it hurt – so well done AND learned even more at the post-matinee conversation – OSF helps make it happen again!
But – a question – where did the money in the can end up? Cast gathering at play’s end? A real buffalo head?
Hi hi hi! Thank you for supporting the play, glad you enjoyed! The money in the can goes to the Chemawa Indian School so that the kits can all go to Firehouse Cabaret at the end of the year. Or get books or whatever, I dunno what they’re doing with the money. Thanks again!