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An overview of the history of researching Aboriginal performance in an academic environment and the problems connected with this task, by one of the guest editors of a special issue of ADS, titled 'Sun Sisters and Lightning Brothers : Australian Aboriginal Performance'.
The article, inspired by Enoch and Mailman's play The 7 Stages of Grieving, 'juxtaposes some of The Seven Valleys of Baha'u'llah with the seven phases of Aboriginal history to explore possible stages of nurturing the Indigenous performing arts of Australia' (18).
Discusses the writing of a play 'Truly, Madly, Country' for the Third National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Playwrights Conference in March 2000. Includes the third scene of the text.