Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage

by E. Donald Two-Rivers

In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence. Fast-talking and hard-living, the characters depicted by Two-Rivers struggle to survive the sometimes hostile environs of a society whose members think of them as a vanishing race.

The plays included are: Winter Summit or the Bang-Bang Incident; Forked Tongues; Chili Corn; Coyote Sits in Judgment; Shattered Dream; and Old Indian Trick (An Old Urban Indian Story as Told by an Old Urban Indian Who May Have Lied).

298 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2001

Reviews

[Carlos Cumpian]

Unless you believe that having a university or college degree is the only way a modern American playwright can get their work on stage then you need to read this collection of produced plays by my friend E. Donald Two-Rivers. Two-Rivers never went to college, unless it was for a lecture or reading he was presenting to a class. Two-Rivers did take a few playwriting classes in the community workshop setting.But it was, "the school of hard-knocks," that really provided the material he handled with eloquence, assurance and authority.
How many Ojibway playwrights do you know?