A love story unfolds.
Under a lemon tree, two teenage boys meet in the light of a full moon. Neddy, a wannabe warrior from the Mountain Mob, and Ty, a storyteller from the River Mob, are tasked with exchanging information about the strangers who have landed on their shores. Starting out defensively, full of teenage bravado, their uneasy friendship grows into tender love; they're young men on the brink of an adulthood that promises all love has to offer.
But trailing their every move is an army of invaders, bringing with them cultural shifts, moral judgement and deadly disease. When history comes knocking, love is tested to its limits.
Whitefella Yella Tree by Dylan Van Den Berg is a stunning exploration of young, queer love and Country in the midst of invasion, told with a fierce poetic vision and razor-sharp wit.
Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Playwriting
'Whitefella Yella Tree is riveting storytelling, funny and sad, moving and enlightening. It is a testament to love. It is a timely reminder that we must never forget the past if we are to heal the future' —Canberra Times
DYLAN VAN DEN BERG is a Palawa writer and dramaturg, with family connections to the northeast of Tasmania and the Bass Strait Islands. He has held residencies at Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, and was a participant in ILBIJERRI’s BlackWrights program for First Nations dramaturgs. His play Whitefella Yella Tree premiered at Griffin Theatre Company to much acclaim, receiving an Australian Writer’s Guild Award for Best Original Play and the David Williamson Prize for Australian Writing. Other plays include Way Back When (The Old Fitz), Milk (The Street Theatre), Ngadjung (Belco Arts, Canberra), The Camel (Motley Bauhaus), The Chosen Vessel (The Street Theatre), All that Glitters is Not Mould (NIDA), and The Flood (National Theatre of Parramatta). He is a two-time recipient of the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, one time winner of the Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama, and was shortlisted for the UK’s Bruntwood International Award for Playwriting. He studied theatre at the ANU and the State University of New York, and completed a PhD in Aboriginal Gothic theatre at the University of Canberra.
| Cast Info | 2M |
| Genres | Drama |
| Themes | Two-hander, Diverse sexuality themes, LGBTQIA+, First Nations |
| Audiences | Adult |
| Extent | 82 |
| Edition | Standard |
| Size | 137 x 210 mm |