Namatjira and Ngapartji Ngapartji

Namatjira and Ngapartji Ngapartji PDF Author: Scott Rankin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760625849
Category : Artists, Aboriginal Australian
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Namatjira's most famous Indigenous, watercolour artist and the first to achieve commercial success, but his story is hardly known. Albert Namatjiras story resonates today as strongly as it did 50 years ago, providing a lens through which we can see the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians both in the past and the present. Ngapartji Ngapartji -- Taking its name from the Pitjantjatjara concept of exchange and reciprocity -- co-created with Trevor Jamieson -- this play is a deeply affecting experience of Indigenous history. Exploring themes of dispossession and displacement from country, home and family, the play tells the story of a Pitjantjatjara family forcibly moved off their lands to make way for the testing of British Atomic bombs at Maralinga. (Namatjira -- 4 male Ngapartji Ngapartji -- 10 male, 3 female & choir).

Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage

Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage PDF Author: Susanne Julia Thurow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000682188
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of storytelling to create and advocate contemporary fluid conceptions of Indigeneity. Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage offers a window into the history and diversity of this vigorous practice. It introduces the reader to cornerstones of Indigenous Australian cultural frameworks and on this backdrop discusses a wealth of plays in light of their responses to contemporary Australian identity politics. The in-depth readings of two landmark theatre productions, Scott Rankin’s Namatjira (2010) and Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss’ I Am Eora (2012), trace the artists’ engagement with questions of community consolidation and national reconciliation, carefully considering the implications of their propositions for identity work arising from the translation of traditional ontologies into contemporary orientations. The analyses of the dramatic texts are incrementally enriched by a dense reflection of the production and reception contexts of the plays, providing an expanded framework for the critical consideration of contemporary postcolonial theatre practice that allows for a well-founded appreciation of the strengths yet also pointing to the limitations of current representative approaches on the Australian mainstage. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial, Literary, Performance and Theatre Studies.

Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji

Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji PDF Author: Scott Rankin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780868199221
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji go right to the heart of the intersection between Indigenous and non-Indigenous experience. These stories of family, friendship, land, myth, life and death are contextualised within the social and political framework of their times. They resonate universally, yet at the same time capture unique moments in Australian history and experience. Namatjira -- The moving story of Albert Namatjira (1902-1959). Namatjira was Australia's most famous Indigenous, watercolour artist and the first to achieve commercial success, but his story is hardly known. Albert Namatjira's story resonates today as strongly as it did 50 years ago, providing a lens through which we can see the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians both in the past and the present. Ngapartji Ngapartji -- Taking its name from the Pitjantjatjara concept of exchange and reciprocity -- co-created with Trevor Jamieson -- this play is a deeply affecting experience of Indigenous history. Exploring themes of dispossession and displacement from country, home and family, the play tells the story of a Pitjantjatjara family forcibly moved off their lands to make way for the testing of British Atomic bombs at Maralinga. (Namatjira -- 4 male & 2 musicians; Ngapartji Ngapartji -- 10 male, 3 female & choir)

Namatjira

Namatjira PDF Author: Scott Rankin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780868199160
Category : Art, Aboriginal Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Albert Namatjira was a man of firsts: the first successful indigenous artist and the first indigenous man to be made an Australian citizen. At the height of his fame in the 1950s Albert Namatjira's shows sold out within minutes. If you didn't own one of his paintings you probably had a print in your lounge room. He also supported over six hundred members of his community, lost two of his ten children to malnutrition, was forbidden to own land, imprisoned for having a drink with his friends, and died a broken man. Namatjira is a whole-hearted tribute to a great man.

Our Day Out

Our Day Out PDF Author: Willy Russell
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472536568
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free from school. 'The skill and zest of the show . . . derive from its success in following the adult argument through while preserving all the fun of a story mainly played by children . . . I have rarely seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness.' The Times This edition contains the music to the play.

The Weir

The Weir PDF Author: Conor McPherson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822217060
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
THE STORY: In a bar in rural Ireland, the local men swap spooky stories in an attempt to impress a young woman from Dublin who recently moved into a nearby haunted house. However, the tables are soon turned when she spins a yarn of her own.

City of Gold

City of Gold PDF Author: MEYNE. WYATT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760622695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
Young actor Breythe left Kalgoorlie dreaming of a dazzling career.Now he's found himself starring in a controversial Australia Day ad that pays big, but draws the ire of his mob. Racism is subtle but persistent in an industry where directors request he darken up for 'authenticity' and typecast him as 'tracker', 'drinker' or 'thief'. Returning home, Breythes just as alienated from country and lore. His cultural capital distances him from furious brother Mateo and activist sister Carina, all of them struggling with regret and responsibility after their fathers death. Meyne Wyatt burst onto the acting scene in 2011s Silent Disco at Griffin, going on to grace our screens (The Sapphires, Redfern Now, Mystery Road) and star on the Broadway stage (Peter Pan). Now he returns to the Stables as a playwright who is as courageous as he is merciless. It may be unclear where character ends and creator begins. City of Gold is a howl of rage at the injustice, inequality and wilful amnesia of this countrys 21st century. Its an urgent play for our moment from a vital new voice. As Childish Gambino sings across the Pacific This is America, Meyne Wyatt calls back loudly This is Australia.

Treehouses

Treehouses PDF Author: Elizabeth Kuti
Publisher: Methuen Drama
ISBN: 9780413753809
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A new play from an award-winning playwright, published as part of the innovative Abbey Theatre playscript series On the day of her father's funeral, Eva - a young woman - is still haunted by the betrayal she witnessed from her childhood haven - the treehouse in the garden. On the same day another woman, Magda, relives the ghosts of another hiding place and a different betrayal - ghosts from which she still seeks forgiveness. Interweaving lives and secrets Treehouses is a magical tale of refuge, treachery and of love lost and found.

Honour

Honour PDF Author: Joanna Murray-Smith
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216834
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
THE STORY: After thirty-two years, a marriage shatters into pieces. Acclaimed journalist Gus leaves Honor, a poet, wife and mother, for Claudia, a bright young journalist not much older than his and Honor's twenty-four-year-old daughter, Sophie. In
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