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Brisbane-based actor and writer, Yuwaalaraay woman Hannnah Belanszky concentrates on telling Aboriginal stories and creating work that is bold, imaginative and female driven.
She is also the author and director of cabaret The Wives of Wolfgang.
'Joan needs her father. She hasn't seen him since he left her and her Mum when she was just a little girl. She wants answers. she wants history, she wants to know more about who she is. She travels a long way into country as remote as it is strange to this city girl. She finds Mick; a man who doesn't speak much, and who bears little resemblance to the man who taught her to play Scrabble all those years ago.
'But amid the flies, the heat, the dust and the stillness of this small river town, lurk many ghosts and mysteries. Over cups of tea and Scrabble in Mick's weather-beaten old house, Joan is about to discover some family secrets that have been hidden below the surface for decades.'