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Aliwa!
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Aliwa!

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.
'Humanity and humour are at the fore in [Aliwa!] … It is 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
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-688-6 | PB
Barungin: Smell the Wind
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Barungin: Smell the Wind

Jack Davis
Set in 1988, Barungin completes the trilogy beginning with The Dreamers and No Sugar. It deals with racially charged issues such as land rights, alcohol abuse and black deaths in custody.
Cast : 6M, 4F
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-248-2 | PB
Belonging
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Belonging

Tracey Rigney

Follows the taunts and temptations of a school girl, and her personal struggle to remain true to her culture and herself.

Published in Blak Inside

Cast : 1M, 3F, doubling necessary
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | PB
Bitin' Back
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Bitin' Back

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.

Published in Contemporary Indigenous Plays

Cast : 5M, 1F, with doubling
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-795-1 | PB
Black Medea
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Black Medea

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 with ‘visceral impact and lasting, disturbing imagery’ (Sydney Morning Herald).
Cast : 1M, 2F, I child
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-795-1 | PB
Blak Inside
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Blak Inside

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: Enuff (John Harding); I Don’t Wanna Play House (Tammy Anderson); Belonging (Tracey Rigney); Casting Doubts (Maryanne Sam); Crowfire (Jadah Milroy); and Conversations With the Dead (Richard J. Frankland).

Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | PB
Bran Nue Dae
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Bran Nue Dae

Jimmy Chi and Kuckles

A great big joyous musical from Broome! Willy and Old Uncle Tadpole flee the city to embark on a journey of personal discovery and outrageous adventures back to their Aboriginal homeland.

Co-published with Magabala Books.

Cast : 5M, 3F
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-293-2 | PB
Brumby Innes/Bid Me to Love
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Brumby Innes/Bid Me to Love

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
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-086-0 | PB
Burst of Summer
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Burst of Summer

Oriel Gray

A social-realist play dealing with racial prejudice set in a country milk bar. Suggested by the promotion of the Aboriginal actor Ngarla Kunoth, who played the title role in Charles Chauvel's Jedda, the play explores a town divided over a new housing develoment for the Aboriginal population. Passions are stirred by press interest in Peggy, an Aboriginal girl who has won brief fame as a film actress; entrenched pastoral interests; envy and racism; and perceived Aboriginal fecklessness. Despite the intercessions of a local black lawyer and Joe, the 'dago' cafe owner, the summer heat busts into violence.

Published in Plays of the 60s Volume 1

Cast : 7M, 2F
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-545-2 | PB
Cake Man, The
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Cake Man, The

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.

Published in Plays of the 70s Volume 2

Cast : 4M, 1F, 1 boy
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-552-0 | PB
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