SOURCE: A review of Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, April 15, 1991, p. C3.

In the following excerpt, Cushman asserts that Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing is a powerful play about misogyny.

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which opened Saturday at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, begins with magic. At the side of a great, bare, tilted plat-form, white with a black surround, stands a figure, recognizably and traditionally Indian. The figure gestures, and snow falls.

After this descent another, more prosaic. A sofa is lowered from the flies. Visible upon it is a naked male body. A female in black underpants detaches herself from it, and begins to dress. Actually she dons, slowly, a monstrous pair of false breasts. Music sounds: The Stripper, played plaintively and incongruously on a mouth organ. Not a word spoken and already we have...