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'"Red Sanctuary" is a new interdisciplinary work which explores and represents the socio-political tensions in Australia through the exploration of identity in relation to country and environment. Set in Asia, in a foreign "stranger in a strange land" to explore socio-political tensions of Indigenous Australia.
Documented through the eyes of a young Aboriginal woman, Dawn, who leaves Australia for Asia, the play journeys away from the psychological, physical and cultural dominance of colonial-Australia, releases self-determination and strengthens the courage to reform primal bonds.
"Red Sanctuary" journals the journey, each scene offering reflections of the dimensions of unpredictability within two venerable societies. It is an impressionistic interpretation of a modern political and spiritual rite of passage.' Source: www.australianstage.com.au/ (Sighted 02/11/2009).
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A co-preoduction by Metro Arts and Butchers Paper Workshop as part of the 2009 Independents at Metro Arts, 109 Edward Street Brisbane, 4-21 November 2009. Co-Directors: Christine Peacock and Tamara Whyte.
