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'ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Te Rēhia Theatre present a creative development showing of BLACK TIES.
'A groundbreaking collaboration and cultural exchange between two leading First Nations theatre companies, this is your opportunity for a first look at BLACK TIES before its world premiere in 2020. Emerging out of long-standing First Nations Exchange initiatives, the development of BLACK TIES began in Melbourne as part of AsiaTOPA Creative Labs in May 2018 and brings together creatives from First Nations theatre companies in Australia and New Zealand.
'When Māori corporate hotshot Hera and Aboriginal consultancy entrepreneur Bila locked eyes at a cultural awareness session, it was love at first sight. Ambitious, career focused, and driven by their need for control, Bila and Hera have their perfect future all mapped out. But there is one thing they can’t control – their families! Relatives are arriving from both sides of the ditch for the wedding, and reality is sinking in – and sinking fast. Will this international love story bring two strong cultures together? Or will it divide their families and countries, and blow Hera and Bila’s world apart?'
Source: Yirramboi Festival
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First performed at Younghusband, Melbourne, by Yirramboi Theatre Company, 10 May 2019 (creative development showing).
Co-Director: Tainui Tukiwaho.
Co-Director: Rachael Maza.
Producer: Nina Bonacci.
Producer: Amber Curreen.
Producer: Laila Thaker.
Presented at the Sydney Festival, 10-18 January 2020.
Directors: Rachael Maza and Tainui Tukiwaho.
Set Designer: Jacob Nash.
Composer and Musical Director: Brendan Boney.
Lighting Designer: Jane Hakaraia.
Costume Designer: Te Ura Hoskins.
Cast: Jack Charles, Mark Coles Smith, Lana Garland, Tawhirangi Macpherson, Lisa Maza, Tuakoi Ohia, Brady Peeti, Tainui Tukiwaho, Dalara Williams, and Dion Williams.
Presented at Studio Underground, Perth, as part of the Perth Festival, 13-16 February 2020.
Directors: Rachael Maza & Tainui Tukiwaho.
Set Designer: Jacob Nash.
Composer & Musical Director: Brendon Boney.
Lighting Designer: Jane Hakaraia.
Sound Designer: Laughton Kora.
Costume Designer: Te Ura Hoskins.
Cast: Jack Charles, Mark Coles Smith, Lana Garland, Tawhirangi Macpherson, Lisa Maza, Tuakoi Ohia, Brady Peeti, Tainui Tukiwaho, Dalara Williams, and Dion Williams.
Band led by Brendan Boney with Mayella Dewis and Laughton Kora.
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Indigenous Theatre Leaders on Stage Representation, Storytelling and Australian Theatre
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2020; -
Festival Platform Shares Our Voice
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 15 January no. 717 2020; (p. 28-29) 'Sydney Festival's Blak Out program is the largest single commissioner of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works in the country. Artistic director Wesley Enoch said Sydney Festival 2020 presents 46 new co-commissioned works, a great many with Indigenous themes at their heart. "There's politics and social perspectives all throughout everything we do," Enoch said. "And it's interesting this idea of history and retrospectives. When you have someone like (visual artist) Vernon Ah Kee doing his work, called The Island, which is looking at Palm Island and (artist) Fiona Foley and her exhibition work, it's both the contemporary and the historical sitting side by side. "When there is more representation, you can look at the diversity of the voices that non-Indigenous Australia is hearing from us." ' (Introduction)
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Festival Platform Shares Our Voice
2020
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 15 January no. 717 2020; (p. 28-29) 'Sydney Festival's Blak Out program is the largest single commissioner of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works in the country. Artistic director Wesley Enoch said Sydney Festival 2020 presents 46 new co-commissioned works, a great many with Indigenous themes at their heart. "There's politics and social perspectives all throughout everything we do," Enoch said. "And it's interesting this idea of history and retrospectives. When you have someone like (visual artist) Vernon Ah Kee doing his work, called The Island, which is looking at Palm Island and (artist) Fiona Foley and her exhibition work, it's both the contemporary and the historical sitting side by side. "When there is more representation, you can look at the diversity of the voices that non-Indigenous Australia is hearing from us." ' (Introduction)
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Indigenous Theatre Leaders on Stage Representation, Storytelling and Australian Theatre
2020
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2020;
