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'Nancy Bruce urgently needs cultural knowledge to clinch the deal of her career. Now she just has to convince the Ailan family, whom she’s never met, to help her.'
Source: La Mama (2019 production).
Production Details
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Presented at Yellamundie National First Peoples Playwriting Festival in 2017.
Given a rehearsed reading at La Mama as part of 'Blak Mama', a showcase of five First Nations plays (including one by a Canadian playwright) in a single day, 8 September 2019.
Presented at Meat Market, Flat Floor Theatre, as part of Yirramboi Festival, 12-15 May 2021.
[Countries listed below appear on the official performance listings.]
Director/Producer: Maryanne Sam (Meriam).
Co-Production Managers: Greg Fryer (Walpiri) and Lisa Parris (Lives on Wurundjeri Land).
Set/Costume Designer: Robyne Latham (Yamatji).
Lighting Designer: Jenny Hector (Lives on Boonwurrung Land).
Musical Director/Arranger: Jayden Lillyst (Gunditjmara).
Choir Master/Cultural Consultant: Luke Captain (Meriam Mer).
Stage Manager: Greg Fryer (Walpiri).
Production Management Assistant Mentee: Tobi Sam-Morris (Meriam).
Director's Mentor: Andrea James (Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai).
Original Music Scores/Arrangement: Irine Vela (Lives on Wurundjeri Land).
Original Words and Music: Maryanne Sam.
Set Builder: Jim Stenson, Independent Scenery.
Cast: Laila Thaker (Meriam/ Badulaig) (Nancy Bruce/Shilita Gazeer), Charles Passi (Meriam) (Harry Gazeer), Deb Lowah Clark (Meriam Mer) (Cessy Gazeer), Richard Piper (Lives on the land of the Kulin Nations) (Johnno/Pastor), Corey Saylor-Brunskill (Meriam Mer, Waiben) (Young Harry/Michael), and Tobi Sam-Morris (Meriam) (Young Cessy Gazeer).
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Works about this Work
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Joyous, Comic and Grim : The Best New Indigenous Playwrights
2017
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 3 February 2017; '“Yellamundie” is a Darug word for storyteller, and the name of a biennial play development festival for Indigenous Australian writers run in Sydney since 2013.' -
Playwrights Ready to Stage Festival
2017
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 25 January no. 643 2017; (p. 6) 'Six Indigenous playwrights are coming together in Sydney for the Yellamundie National First Peoples Playwrighting Festival from January 27.'
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Playwrights Ready to Stage Festival
2017
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 25 January no. 643 2017; (p. 6) 'Six Indigenous playwrights are coming together in Sydney for the Yellamundie National First Peoples Playwrighting Festival from January 27.' -
Joyous, Comic and Grim : The Best New Indigenous Playwrights
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 3 February 2017; '“Yellamundie” is a Darug word for storyteller, and the name of a biennial play development festival for Indigenous Australian writers run in Sydney since 2013.'
