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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
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-552-0 | PB
AuthorRobert Merritt was born in 1945 and brought up on Erambie Aboriginal Mission, NSW. The Cake Man, written in isolation in Bathurst, was an attempt to express the root causes of Aboriginal despair. It was first performed in 1975 by the newly-formed Black Theatre in Redfern, followed by a number of successful productions. In the 1980s he made a number of documentary films, was Chair of the Aboriginal Arts Board, the first Aboriginal member of the Australia Council and Chair of the Festival of Pacific Arts in 1988. |
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