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y separately published work icon Contemporary Indigenous Plays anthology   drama  
Alternative title: Windmill Baby, Rainbow's End, King Hit, Bitin' Back, Black Medea
Note: Introduction by Larissa Behrendt.
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Contemporary Indigenous Plays
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Currency Press , 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Bitin' Back, Vivienne Cleven , single work drama humour

Adapted from Vivenne Cleven's award-winning novel Bitin Back.

 (p. [1]-53)
Black Medea, Wesley Enoch , single work drama

'In this riveting reworking of Euripides' play, Medea is a young Indigenous woman who after leaving her family and desert country behind, finds herself in a loveless partnership with the drunken and violent Jason. When Medea attempts to flee home with their young son, Jason makes her promise that she will never take the child from the house. In a breathtaking act of revenge and sacrifice, Medea kills her young child... the child that was the father's heart.' (Source: AusStage website)

 (p. [55]-81)
King Hit, David Milroy , Geoffrey Narkle , single work drama

'An acclaimed play that strikes at the very heart of the Stolen Generations, exploring the impact on an individual and a culture when relationships are brutally broken.' 'Based on the life story of Geoffrey Narkle, King Hit mirrors the lives of many Aboriginal people of his generation. Forcibly removed from his family, Geoffrey was raised on Wandering Mission before leaving to join Stewart's Boxing Troupe, where he travelled the South West as a tent boxer.'

'Ultimately it would be Geoffrey's fighting spirit that gave him the strength to turn away from a downward spiral of despair and find peace within and reconcile broken family bonds.' (Source: Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company website; Publisher's blurb,19/07/2009).

 (p. [83]-116)
Rainbow's End, Jane Harrison , single work drama

'Three generations of Koori women live on the edge of a country town in a shack on the banks of a flood prone river. For Nan, even life on “The Flats” represents progress of a kind, but Gladys has ambitions for a real house in town and a proper job for daughter Dolly. Set against the Queen’s visit in 1954 with music that evokes the period, this tender, funny play celebrates the fierce optimism of the women as they struggle for community acceptance in Menzies’ era Australia. ' (Source: AusStage website)

 (p. [117]-200)
Windmill Baby, David Milroy , Josie Ningali Lawford , single work drama
Windmill Baby is the story of Maymay, an old Aboriginal woman who returns to the deserted Kimberley cattle station that was her home 50 years ago. A one-woman redemption piece told through Indigenous voices, with the endearing characters of Wun-man, Two-man, Aunty Darbella and old Maymay, this play is delivered with the poetry of a campfire storyteller.
 (p. [201]-228)
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