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Dallas Winmar
Traces the true story of three Aboriginal sisters whose mother was determined to keep her children when officials wanted to remove them following the death of their father.
The story is that of the three sisters of the playwright Jack Davis.
Review
Humanity and humour are at the fore … a gentle and vibrant evocation of an Aboriginal family’s relationship with each other and the land on which they struggle to live. - Bryce Hallett, Sydney Morning Herald
Cast : 2M, 4F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-688-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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in Blak Inside
Tracey Rigney
Follows the taunts and temptations of a school girl, and her personal struggle to remain true to her culture and herself.
Cast : 1M, 3F (doubling required)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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$29.95 ex GST
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in Contemporary Indigenous Plays
Vivienne Cleven
Adapted from her award-winning novel, Vivienne Cleven’s
Bitin’ Back is a ‘zany and uproarious black farce’(
National Indigenous Times) which explores stereotyping, identity and race relations in a Queensland country town.
Cast : 5M, 3F (doubling required)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-795-1 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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in Contemporary Indigenous Plays
Wesley Enoch
Black Medea is Wesley Enoch’s richly poetic adaptation of Euripides’
Medea. Blending the cultures of Ancient Greek and Indigenous storytelling, Enoch weaves a commentary on contemporary Aboriginal experience.
Published in
Contemporary Indigenous Plays
Extract
Review
A visceral impact and lasting, disturbing imagery - SMH
Cast : 2M, 2F, including 1 boy
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-795-1 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Tammy Anderson et. al.
A collection of six plays from Victoria by Aboriginal writers which encompass a myriad of issues about the Aboriginal experience.
Includes:
Cast : various Performance Rights : go to specific play page
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Katharine Susannah Prichard
'I consider
Brumby Innes to be in a class by itself' wrote theatre director Gregan McMahon in 1927, 'It is a very remarkable work, comparable to some of the best of Eugene O'Neill's, and it is, moreover, essentially Australian.'
Written in the 1920s,
Brumby Innes confronts the turbulent relations between the sexes and the races in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is published with another Prichard play from the 1920s,
Bid Me To Love which, by contrast, is set among the fashionable rich in the lush hills outside Perth.
The two plays are compelling for their dramatic styles and for their insight into the novels which followed:
Coonardoo and
Intimate Strangers. And both had to wait more than forty years for their first production.
Cast : 9M, 6F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-086-0 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Bill Reed
Burke's Company is a 'play of disillusion', writes Katharine Brisbane, which looks at 'the blindness of European exploiters like Robert O'Hara Burke who failed to manage his company or listen to their voices; and refused to acknowledge the Aborigines' offers of salvation. Burke's dream is to conquer the land, by traversing it from south to north. He wants their exploits gloriously recorded in Wills' writings. A play about class—in this case the moneyed class—for whom discipline is a tool of survival not always placed in the safest hands.'
Cast : 9M
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-562-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Robert Merritt
This landmark play portrays life on a mission in Western NSW. A simple, moving story which shows white Christian paternalism from a black point of view.
The Cake Man was the first play by an Aboriginal writer to enter the repertoire of the white theatre.
Published with notes on Wiradjuri country and memories of the mission where Merritt was raised.
Cast : 5M, 1F, including 1 boy
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-552-0 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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in Blak Inside
Maryanne Sam
A funny and at times heart-wrenching play about an actors' casting agency with more colour charts than a paint shop, and the problems faced by Indigenous actors.
Cast : 3M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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Angela Betzien
A gothic fairytale for young people. Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and learn a history of Australia through the spirits of children who have lived there, from convict times, through to World War Two, the Stolen Generation and beyond.
An evocative play which explores history, reconciliation and the power of storytelling,
Children of the Black Skirt has toured widely through schools and is a classroom favourite with teachers and students alike.
Cast : 14M, 12F (cast of 3 possible with doubling)
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-760-9 | Sales rights: worldwide | PB
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