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Jorjia Gillis’ comedy on racism and sexism is premiering at Griffin Theatre Company. It has a sharp edge and a big heart.
From playwright and director Andrea James, this is theatre that breathes beyond the stage, reconnecting culture and story across generations.
This new play at Belvoir follows three best friends who share a house together in 1960s Redfern, the heart of ‘Blak Sydney’.
The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
Is That You, Ruthie? is a harrowing account of a mother and daughter’s attempt to repair their fractured relationship.
My top three works situated witnessing as a political act. These works invite you to revisit what you thought you knew.
Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor reproduces something familiar with a dash of local flavour.
Uncle Jack Charles had a remarkable career of truth-telling across theatre, screen and books.
Indigenous oral history is more than a methodology. It is living history, practised for thousands of millennia, intrinsically woven into Aboriginal people’s way of life and culture.
David Milroy’s Panawathi Girl is a rocking, vaudevillian, politically sharp and engaging piece of Australian First Nations’ music theatre.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley’s biography is an intimate and personal play, tempered with humour and love.
The world premiere of Nardi Simpson’s Black Drop Effect takes in the complex histories of Aboriginal responses to commemoration, and makes space for protest, cultural reclamation and negotiation.
A playwright known for Black Comedy tackles sorry business and loss - providing an engaging window into family life.
Too often, TV shows and films present Aboriginal characters as oppressed people. But two new TV series, Cleverman and Songlines on Screen, are a welcome contrast.
The performance space in which Wesley Enoch’s play Black Diggers is being performed at the Brisbane Festival is a large black box. It features a raised stage in the middle which proves versatile for battlegrounds…













