The Only Good Indian

By Tom Davis, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Tom Arthur Davis, et al.

Lecture -- Can I Say Indian

(There is a table stage right and a stool stage left.

On the table there is a laptop, used by the performer to control their own light and video cues.

On the stool sits a suicide vest. Also used by the performer to... you know...

The performer enters through the house.

The performer should acknowledge the traditional keepers of the land they are sharing space on. This should ideally be in keeping with the customs of the area. This should be performed off book, honest, reflexive.

The Performer puts on the suicide vest with an air of ritual. It's an invocation.

Can I say Indian? I don't mean Indian. I mean Indian Indian. You know, like, Good Indian.

Narrative 1

You know what a cannibal is?

Cannibal: consumer of the flesh of one's own species.

In the Caribbean, European explorers classified the Indigenous people they encountered as one of two types: Cannibal or peaceful. Carib or Arawak. Naughty or nice.

Lecture - A Bomb

This is a suicide vest.

I made it myself.

It's gonna off in about thirty minutes.

(A countdown clock appears, then disappears.)

The thing is, it's actually not that hard to make.

You can get most of the stuff online.

Google it.

In porn mode.

"Incognito."

Where no one can see you... except CSIS.

So -- this, for example, is what's in the vest.(Pulls something out of the vest.)

No, that's Tic Tacs.

This.

(Pulls out an explosive from the vest.)This is C3.

It's a lot like C4, only you can get it on Amazon.

With the amount I have strapped to me now --

If I were to stand back here -- (Moves all the way upstage.)

The blast radius would reach only about the lip of the stage.

(Moves all the way downstage.)

But they put my light up here, so...

So if you aren't comfortable with that...

Move back.

Not that it makes much of a difference.

People think that it's the explosion that does the most damage -- like, that kills other people --

the collateral damage.

It's not.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927922917
• ISBN13: 9781927922910
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Scirocco Drama
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"