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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.
'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 Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-688-6 | PB
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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 Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | PB
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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, 3F, with doubling Performance Rights : no agent
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-795-1 | PB
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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 : Cast: 2M, 2F, including 1 boy
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-795-1 | PB
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Tammy Anderson et. al.
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-662-6 | PB
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$19.95 ex GST
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Stephen Sewell
Sewell’s passionate examination of the way political power can corrupt the individual and society at large is now published in a radically revised edition following its revival at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney in 1995.
Cast : 10M, 6F Performance Rights : Marquee Management Pty Ltd davidsheridan [ât] marqueemgt.com.au
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-492-9 | 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 | PB
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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
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-545-2 | 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.
Published in
Plays of the 70s Volume 2
Cast : 5M, 1F, including 1 boy Performance Rights : Currency Press
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-552-0 | PB
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Bruce Myles & Martin Flanagan
Sport and identity politics mix in this energetic adaptation for the stage by Bruce Myles of Martin Flanagan's book.
The Call tells the story of Tom Wills, who grew up among the Djabwurrung people in Western Victoria during the 1840s. Sent to an exclusive school in England, he returns to Australia with a rallying cry that revolutionised sport in his homeland: 'Let's have a game of our own'! Thus a door to indigenous football is opened, with its own rules, humour and history. Snubbed by the big end of town, this driven and passionate man died at age 44. What was it that killed Tom Wills?
The Call offers answers revealing a hidden history of Australian football.
Education Resource Notes for this play are available from the Malthouse Theatre.
The notes include interviews with key artists, playwrights and
directors plus activities and questions for discussion and analysis. For more information go to malthousetheatre.com.au.
Cast : 2M, 3F
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Currency Press | 978-0-86819-738-8 | PB
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