Résumé
Two Native Americans, Kiko and Kajuga, live on a reservation in Iowa, where they dream of a better life. They decide to flee the reservation together, with the White Woman, only to discover that life is a never-ending series of reservations.
Regard du traducteur
This is a humorous play offering a comical metaphor for man's eternal desire to leave, to find a better life and true freedom. The characters and the setting accurately embody this idea, the reservation providing a metaphor for 'prison' or 'enclosure' in the broader sense. Each of us is locked in his/her own comfortable prison, in his/her own 'well-ordered' life.
The play employs a style and dialogue that is 'light', comical and filled with allusions to modern life (cloning, genetically modified foods, etc.).
The two characters are 'in contrast': Kiko is a 'child of nature', a 'shaman' who still has an idealistic outlook on life, while Kajuga, the 'rich Indian' is cynical and full of sarcasm. They soon discover, however, that where their reservation ends, another begins - fleeing one only means imprisonment in another. A dreamlike, utopian vision.