Dust Eaters
Dust Eaters is a play that needs 4 or more performers (2 women, 2 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 4 or more performers
- Roles
- 2 women, 2 men
- Cast notes
- 2 to 3m., 2 to 4w. (Includes 1 Native American m. and 1 to 2 Native American w.) Limited Streaming Rights Available
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
Dust Eaters is an intimate look at two families, one white, one Native American, living side by side in the west desert of Utah. The play covers a total of seven generations, from 1877 to the present. Each scene—a mini-drama of its own—takes place 20 years later than the one before, all in the same small house. We follow the life of Albertine who begins as a defiant 10-year-old Goshute girl living with a white family on a ranch next to her tribe's ancestral land. We trace the interdependence and
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