'Tasmania, now.
'Boyd’s got enough on his plate between keeping a young family together and his responsibilities to land and people.
'But something’s happening. Every year more and more folk are claiming to be Palawa too. Folk no-one’s heard of until now, who haven’t been ‘round before. Are they legit? Or are they ‘tick-a-box’? Who decides? And how?
'If Boyd’s going to take everyone forward, they’re all going to have to go back, old mob or new, into the island’s knotty past. And they might not like what they find there.'
Source: Belvoir Street Theatre.
Read at the Yellamundie Festival, 26 January 2019.
Set for production by Belvoir Street Theatre at the Upstairs Theatre, 7 August - 5 September 2021.
Director: Isaac Drandic.
Production postponed, but not initially cancelled, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rescheduled for production by Belvoir Street Theatre (Upstair Theatre) from 29 January to 20 February 2022.
Director: Isaac Drandic.
Cast: Luke Carroll (Boyd), Sandy Greenwood (Nala), Alex Malone (Gracie), and Jayden Popik (Daniel).
Set Designer: Jacob Nash.
Costume Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam.
Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie.
Composer: Brendon Boney.
Sound Designer: David Bergman.
Return season (limited) by Belvoir Street Theatre (Upstairs Theatre), 4 - 21 May 2023.
Director: Isaac Drandic.
Associate Director: Nathan Maynard.
Cast: Luke Carroll (Boyd), Sandy Greenwood (Nala), Alex Malone (Gracie), and Ari Maza Long (Daniel).
Set Designer: Jacob Nash.
Costume Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam.
Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie.
Composer: Brendon Boney.
Sound Designer: David Bergman.
Presented by Queensland Theatre Company at Bille Brown Theatre, 25 May - 10 June 2023.
Director: Isaac Drandic.
Cast including Luke Carroll.
Presented by State Theatre Company of South Australia (as a Belvoir St Theatre production), Odeon Theatre, 16 June - 1 July 2023.
Director: Isaac Drandic.
Associate Director: Nathan Maynard.
Set Designer: Jacob Nash.
Costume Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam.
Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie.
Composer: Brendon Boney.
Sound Designer: David Bergman.
Cast: Luke Carroll, Sandy Greenwood, Alex Malone, and Ari Maza Long.
'Powerful First Nations Tasmanian play about the knots of identity goes on tour.'
'In 2016, the Tasmanian government scrapped the three-pronged criteria used to determine Aboriginality. Where people had previously needed to provide documentary evidence of Aboriginal ancestry, the new rules only require self-identification and communal recognition.' (Introduction)
A timeless tragedy that prompts questions about land and (Indigenous) identity.
'In 2016, the Tasmanian government scrapped the three-pronged criteria used to determine Aboriginality. Where people had previously needed to provide documentary evidence of Aboriginal ancestry, the new rules only require self-identification and communal recognition.' (Introduction)
'Powerful First Nations Tasmanian play about the knots of identity goes on tour.'
A timeless tragedy that prompts questions about land and (Indigenous) identity.
