Big Buck City: A Play In Two Acts

A Play In Two Acts.

In this dark comedy, a house is possessed by the Spirit of the Winter season, but for the Bucks it does not look like Christmas. In Big Buck City Canadian native playwright, Daniel David Moses, skewers salvation, family, greed and even plumbing —all of which come together (or is it apart?) as the Bucks seek to become upwardly mobile in the city.

Daniel David Moses is a registered Delaware Indian, who was born in 1952 and grew up on a farm on the Six Nations lands located on the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He has written numerous plays such as The Indian Medicine Shows, Big Buck City, Brébeuf’s Ghost and Coyote City which was a finalist nominated for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama; books of poetry including Sixteen Jesuses; and a collection of essays, Pursued by A Bear. He holds an Honours B.A. from York University and a M. F. A. from the University of British Columbia. Daniel participated in the 2004 Adelaide Festival Writers Week in South Australia and the Neva Book Forum in St. Petersburgh in the Russian Republic. He has also been Poet in Residence for Myty, Ktere Nas Spojuji/ Myths That Unite Us, the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Island Theatre Project with productions in Prague Czechoslovakia and Toronto, Manitoulin Island and Montreal Canada. Currently, he teaches at Queen’s University Drama Department in Kingston, Ontario and pursues independent writing projects. Daniel David Moses lives in Toronto.