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Belvoir takes the cake
In the early 1970s a group of aspiring theatre-makers occupied a terrace in Redfern and started the National Black Theatre
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A new direction for Lou
For Lou, the transition from Tiddas member to solo performer was a particularly enlightening experience. Going solo didn’t suit her, so Lou Bennett has a new group to sing with.
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Revitalising Redfern theatre
‘This Fella, My Memory’ is an emotionally-charged stage production that is a celebration of older Aboriginal women
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Roeburn community tells its story
Hipbone Sticking Out is a new play by Big hART about an imagined spirit journey
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New play reconnects women with country
Winyanboga Yurringa, the new play by Andrea James, was recently presented for the first time at the national play festival in Perth. With a theme of identity, it tells the powerful story of Aboriginal women going back to country. Winyanboga Yurringa translates as ‘Women of the Sun’ in Yorta Yorta language. Andrea James’ play was […]
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Tammy Anderson play is a hit
One of the highlights of this year’s Message Sticks Festival at the Sydney Opera House was the staging of Tammy Anderson’s one-woman play I Don’t Wanna Play House. After touring the world for 13 years, it was finally staged at ‘the big house’. I Don’t Wanna Play House debuted at Playbox (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne) in […]
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Digi Youth Theatre
The Brisbane-based DigiYouth Theatre will workshop, write and produce an all-Indigenous youth play this year. The play will be about the challenges that face young people when they leave their communities to seek opportunities in the cities. Digi Youth Theatre’s director and producer, Alethea Beetson says Digi Youth Theatre will hold workshops to begin the production […]
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Larger Than Life
Indigenous theatre-maker Wesley Enoch is directing an ambitious new show for the Sydney Festival this month. I Am Eora will celebrate three heroes of Aboriginal Sydney, whose enduring spirits still inspire – Pemulwuy, Barangaroo and Bennelong. The massive production features a huge cast of more than 50 Aboriginal musicians, performers, creative artists and technicians from […]
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A Story to Tell
Little Birung is a musical song-cycle that tells the story of six generations of extraordinary Indigenous women from a North Queensland family. It opens at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane on 16 November. ‘Little Birung’ is the story of Flora Hoolihan, the 96-year-old great-grandmother of performer Megan Sarmardin. Megan, 27, already […]
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Best of Both Worlds
When you’re onto a good thing, stick to it, or so the saying goes, and after two decades in the performance business, Stephen Page and Bangarra Dance Theatre can certainly attest to being onto a very good thing. During that time, Stephen and a select number of cultural mentors and talented dancers have helped transform […]
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Windmill Baby opens in Sydney
A classic of Aboriginal theatre comes to Sydney this month when David Milroy’s Windmill Baby opens at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Surry Hills. Directed by Kylie Farmer, the play was first performed in Perth in 2005 and has since toured all over the world. Set to the backdrop of pastoral life from half a […]
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Farewell to David Ngoombujarra
One of Australia’s best-known Indigenous actors, David Ngoombujarra, whose films included Australia and Rabbit-Proof Fence, has passed away in Fremantle, Western Australia. Ngoombujarra, 44, won Australian Film Institute Awards for his performances in the films Blackfellas and Black and White as well as for his performance in SBS legal drama The Circuit. He was born […]
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Krakouer! on national tour
Touring nationally until 21 September 2011, the Deckchair Theatre’s production of Krakouer! takes an honest, entertaining look at the legend of AFL superstars, the Krakouer brothers. Growing up on farming land in Mt Barker, Western Australia in the early 1970s, Jim and Phil Krakouer made local headlines in their early teens. The pair developed a […]
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Sydney Festival seek funding for I Am Eora
Sydney Festival is setting out to raise $300,000 for the development and staging of one of the centrepieces of the 2012 program, I Am Eora. I Am Eora is a theatre/music/film event that tells the stories of Sydney’s Aboriginal cultural continuity, celebrating its heroes and embracing the sacred heart of our city. Directed by Wesley […]
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Bangarra Community Night performance
Bangarra Dance Theatre commences 2011 with three key events, comprising two vital fundraising performances and one of the biggest European tours the company has ever undertaken. Special performances of the awe-inspiring Spirit will take place at the Sydney Theatre on February 4 for indigenous communities affected bythe Queensland Floods and on February 5 in support […]
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Ursula Yovich – Life Journey
Ursula Yovich has always wanted to do her own show to perform the songs that she’s always wanted to sing, but when the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Director David Campbell approached her in late 2008, she had reservations. She’d just had her first baby, Jala (now two years-old) and wasn’t sure if she’d have time or […]
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