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Jurrungu Ngan-ga single work   musical theatre  
Alternative title: Straight Talk
Date: 2023
Date: 2023
Date: 2022
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Jurrungu Ngan-ga
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'Challenging, joyful and deeply affecting, Jurrungu Ngan-ga confronts Australia’s shameful fixation with incarceration in a powerful and provocative new dance work. Inspired by perspectives on incarceration, Jurrungu Ngan-ga reflects on the disgraceful disproportion of Indigenous Australians in custody and first-hand descriptions of life inside Australia’s immigration detention centres. Searing truths blend with dark humour, fear, sadness and courage to shine a light on new ways to resist and to empower us all to rewrite our future – together.' (Production summary)

Production Details

  • 'Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] was co-commissioned by Carriageworks and the City of Melbourne through Arts House, and has been funded by the Australian Government through the Australia Council it arts funding and advisory body and the Indigenous Language and Arts Program, the Government of Western Australian through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries; Create NSW; and the Nelson Meers Foundation.' (Production website)

    Performed at Carriageworks 27-29 January 2022

    Jurrungu Ngan-ga is collaboratively created by:

    Concept: Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain with Patrick Dodson
    Choreography: Dalisa Pigram with the performers
    Direction: Rachael Swain
    Dramaturgy: Hildegard de Vuyst
    Cultural Dramaturgy: Behrouz Boochani, Patrick Dodson, Omid Tofighian
    Music: Sam Serruys, Paul Charlier and Rhyan Clapham (aka DOBBY)
    Sound Design: Sam Serruys and Paul Charlier
    Scenic Design: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
    Costume Design: Andrew Treloar
    Lighting Design: Damien Cooper

    Co-devising Performers: Czack (Ses) Bero, Emmanuel James Brown, Chandler Connell, Luke CurrieRichardson, Issa el Assaad, Zachary Lopez, Bhenji Ra, Feras Shaheen and Miranda Wheen

    Additional music
    Far from Home
    Farhad Bandesh and Anna Liebzeit (composition)
    Farhad Bandesh (recorded vocals sung in Kurdish)

    The Ha Dub Rewerk’d
    MikeQ (composer and performer)

    Jalangurru Wiyi
    Emmanuel James Brown (live vocals sung in Bunuba)

    Additional instrumental recordings
    Natasha Rumiz – Viola

    Additional Choreography
    Krump Army: Stacy Peke aka Red Ladybrui5er

    Co-devising Performers: Czack (Ses) Bero, Emmanuel James Brown, Chandler Connell, Luke Currie-Richardson, Issa el Assaad, Zachary Lopez, Bhenji Ra, Feras Shaheen, and Miranda Wheen.

    Presented at the Adelaide Festival, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, 10-12 March 2023.

    Creatives as for Carriageworks production.

    Co-devising Performers: Czack (Ses) Bero, Emmanuel James Brown, Chandler Connell, Luke Currie-Richardson, Issa el Assaad, Macon Escobal Riley, Bhenji Ra, Feras Shaheen, and Miranda Wheen.

    Presented by Black Swan Theatre Company, Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth, 15-23 September 2023.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2021
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Works about this Work

Rising Alison Croggon , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11-17 June 2022;
— Review of Jurrungu Ngan-ga 2021 single work musical theatre
‘We Are a Nation of Jailers’ : Jurrungu Ngan-ga Is a Whirlwind of Bodily Resistance Kate Maguire-Rosier , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 31 January 2022;
— Review of Jurrungu Ngan-ga 2021 single work musical theatre

'Jurrungu Ngan-ga, a Yawuru kinship concept meaning “straight talk”, is a throbbing protest about the violence experienced by Indigenous, racial, trans and queer Australia.' 
Straight Talk through the Language of Dance Kirk Page , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 September no. 759 2021; (p. 21)
‘We Are a Nation of Jailers’ : Jurrungu Ngan-ga Is a Whirlwind of Bodily Resistance Kate Maguire-Rosier , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 31 January 2022;
— Review of Jurrungu Ngan-ga 2021 single work musical theatre

'Jurrungu Ngan-ga, a Yawuru kinship concept meaning “straight talk”, is a throbbing protest about the violence experienced by Indigenous, racial, trans and queer Australia.' 
Rising Alison Croggon , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11-17 June 2022;
— Review of Jurrungu Ngan-ga 2021 single work musical theatre
Straight Talk through the Language of Dance Kirk Page , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 September no. 759 2021; (p. 21)
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