Stolen is based upon the lives of five Indigenous people, who go by the names of Sandy, Ruby, Jimmy, Anne and Shirley, who dealt with the issues for forceful removal by the Australian government.
AUSTRALIA:
First produced by Ilbijerri and Playbox Theatre Centre in association with the Melbourne Festival at the CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, 21 October 1998. Written for the Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Theatre Cooperative.
Director: Wesley Enoch.
Cast: Tammy Anderson, Kylie Belling, Tony Briggs, Pauline Whyman, and Stan Yarramunua.
Production Crew: Wesley Enoch, Richard Roberts, Glenn Shea, Matt Scott, and David Chesworth.
Later played at the Cremone Theatre, South Bank, Brisbane on 2 November 2011.
Produced at the National Theatre of Parramatta, 29 May to 1 June 2018.
ENGLAND:
Performed at the Tricycle Theatre in London for a two-week season during 2001.
Director: Wesley Enoch.
Performed at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta : 3-17 June 2016.
Presented by Sydney Theatre Company. Performed at Wharf 1 Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney: 6 June - 6 July 2024.
Director: Ian Michael.
Designer: Renée Mulder.
Composer & Sound Designer: James Brown.
Cast: Jarron Andy, Luke Carroll, Kartanya Maynard, Stephanie Somerville.
Jane Harrison on ‘Becoming Kirrali Lewis’
Astrid Edwards
(interviewer),
2020
23454707
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'Jane Harrison, a descendant of the Muruwari people of NSW, is a playwright, novelist, and the Festival Director of Blak & Bright, the First Nations Literary Festival based in Melbourne.
'Her novel Becoming Kirrali Lewis won the 2014 Black&Write! Prize, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minster’s Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier’s Awards.
'In terms of her works for the stage, Stolen, her first play, was the co-winner of the Kate Challis RAKA Award and has been performed throughout Australia as well as the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Japan. She has also written The Visitors, Rainbow’s End, On A Park Bench and Blakvelvet.' (Production introduction)
