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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Tammy Anderson, a proud Palawa woman, presents a critically acclaimed one woman show based on her childhood, growing up in Tasmania & Victoria. A mixture of monologue, movement & song, the show is often heartbreaking as Anderson relives the abuse she & her family endured.'

Source: Production blurb.

Notes

One woman show. Performed by Tammy Anderson.

Production Details

First produced at CUB Malthouse, Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria, by Playbox Theatre Company, 25 April - 5 May 2001.

Director: John Bolton.

Subsequently performed in seasons both in Australia and overseas.

Presented by Tasmanian Regional Arts and Ten Days on the Island, produced by Playbox Theatre as part of Ten Days on the Island: Flinders Island (28 March 2003), Ulverstone (29 March 2003), Orford (31 March 2003), Bagdad (2 April 2003), Cygnet (3 April 2003), and Hobart (4-6 April 2003).

Director: John Bolton.

Musician: Don Hopkins.

Cast: Tammy Anderson.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2001

Appears in:

y Blak Inside : 6 Indigenous Plays from Victoria John Harding /specialistDatasets/BlackWords , Tammy Anderson /specialistDatasets/BlackWords , Tracey Rigney /specialistDatasets/BlackWords , Maryanne Sam /specialistDatasets/BlackWords , Jadah Milroy /specialistDatasets/BlackWords , Richard Frankland /specialistDatasets/BlackWords , Playbox Theatre , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z950463 2002 anthology drama (taught in 1 units) Abstract
Contains six plays.
Enuff by John Harding is a frightening and funny play about an Australian future where black patience has run out. A violent uprising is planned for Reconciliation Day – will retribution or forgiveness prevail?
I Don't wanna Play House by Tammy Anderson is the moving story of her childhood. A truly remarkable account of the triumph of the human spirit.
Belonging by Tracey Rigney recounts the taunts and temptations of a school girl, and her personal struggle to remain true to her culture, and herself.
Casting Doubts by Maryanne Sam is a funny, and at times heart-wrenching, play about an actors' casting agency with more colour charts than a paint shop, and the problems that Indigenous actors face.
Crowfire by Jadah Milroy is the story of a young, urban Indigenous Australian woman, and a man from a desert community lured into the city. The moving story of a search for identity and the need for reconciliation.
Conservations with the Dead by Richard J Frankland is a poetic and savage play that takes you into the aching sorrow of deaths in custody.
Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002
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A Story of Survival Jillian Mundy , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 19 April no. 649 2017; (p. 21)

Whatchaupto? Tammy Anderson Tammy Anderson , 2012 single work autobiography
— Appears in: RealTime , October-November no. 111 2012; (p. 24)

Brutality and Sexuality in I Don't Wanna Play House Khairul Chowdhury , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Empowering and Disempowering Indigenes : Staging Australian Aboriginal Experience 2010; (p. 172-179)

Presenting the Past : Historiography in Aboriginal Theatre of the 80s and 90s K. G. Naga Radhika , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 3 2010; (p. 144-162)

A Compelling Tour de Force Peter Wilkins , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 July 2010; (p. 4)
— Review of I Don't Wanna Play House Tammy Anderson , 2001 single work drama

One Woman Show Takes Off 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 30 June no. 479 2010; (p. 61)
— Review of I Don't Wanna Play House Tammy Anderson , 2001 single work drama

Telling It Like It Is Mahala Strohfeldt , 2009 single work biography
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 11 February no. 444 2009; (p. 59)

One-Woman Show Faces up to a Nomadic Childhood's Dark Past Jacqueline Williams , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 June 2010; (p. 3)

Presenting the Past : Historiography in Aboriginal Theatre of the 80s and 90s K. G. Naga Radhika , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 3 2010; (p. 144-162)