A play about loss, resilience, and the power of Native stories opens Nov. 7 at Eugene’s Very Little Theater.
“BlueJay’s Canoe” centers around BlueJay, a DJ at a fictional tribal radio station in the Willamette Valley.
“And good afternoon, and a good day it is indeed!” bellowed Kirby Brown as the lead during a recent rehearsal. Brown is an English professor and the director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon, and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He described his character as “funny, sarcastic, boisterous, and bombastic.”
Throughout both acts of the show, BlueJay alternately informs and entertains his listeners through the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 wildfires…