A respected First Nations Canadian playwright and Governor General's
Award finalist, Daniel David Moses is known for using storytelling and
theatrical conventions to explore the consequences of the collision
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures. Coyote City and Big
Buck City are the first two in his series of four City Plays that track
the journey of one particular Native family between a world of Native
spiritual traditions and the materialist urban landscape in which we all
attempt to survive. Coyote City, a tragedy, begins with a phone call
from a ghost that sends a young Native woman, Lena, her family in
pursuit, on a search in the city for her missing lover Johnny. Big Buck
City, a farce, tells the story of Lena's subsequent Christmas reunion
in that city with her family just in time for the birth of her own
miraculous child.