Kathy Balngayngu Marika Kathy Balngayngu Marika i(A127238 works by) (a.k.a. Kathleen Marika)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Yolngu ; Aboriginal Gumatj
(Storyteller) assertion
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BiographyHistory

Kathleen Marika is a storyteller from Yirrkala in the Northern Territory of Australia who belongs to the Rriratjingu. Marika is a speaker of the Gumatj language and is a custodian of traditional Rriratjingu knowledge and stories.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

Bloodland 2011 single work drama

'In an expanse of red dust, pounded by the hot Arnhem Land sun, a telegraph pole protrudes from the earth; a symbol of the scar that the modern world has left on an ancient community. This is Cherish's place. This is where she hides away from the real world, speaks to imagined friends and is visited by the ghosts of relatives long dead. On a day like any other the sound of a mobile phone singing out cuts through the thick dusty air, interrupting the young woman's solitude. As she calmly claws for the phone in the dirt, Cherish unearths the body of a dead boy.

Outsider Cherish will be our guide through a community torn in two, divided by moiety. At the centre of the story she will tell us is a young couple: two star-crossed lovers united in their devotion but separated by blood. Theirs is a tale of social dysfunction, black on black conflict and the difficulties of observing traditional lore in a community permeated by western culture.' (Sydney Theatre Company website)

2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Drama Script (Stage) Award
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