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'Basically the plot is a Larrakia-Filipino love story spanning 100 years of a family's history in Darwin. It's about a Filipino-Spanish sailmaker from Calape, Bohol who ended up in Darwin before the turn of the century. He fell in love with a local Larrakia girl Magdalena McKeddie - she was called Lily. They had 9 children and it's a beautiful love story.' - from interview of Gary Lee by Emere Distor,in Kasama vol. 20 no. 2 2006.
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In interview with Emere Distor, the author says that he received Australia Council funding to develop the script of this play.
Production Details
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Performed at Darwin High School Tank on 20-22 & 27-29 August 1993; Woodford Festival, Queensland, June 9-12 2006.
Set to be presented by Brown's Mart, Darwin, 1 June 2024, as a double-bill with His Own Special Friend. Production postoned after a bereavement in the Lee family. (His Own Special Friend was still produced.)
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Works about this Work
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Keep Him My Heart : A Larrakia-Filipino Love Story
Emere Distor
(interviewer),
2006
single work
interview
— Appears in: Kasama , April-May-June vol. 20 no. 2 2006;
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Keep Him My Heart : A Larrakia-Filipino Love Story
Emere Distor
(interviewer),
2006
single work
interview
— Appears in: Kasama , April-May-June vol. 20 no. 2 2006;
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