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y separately published work icon At What Cost? single work   drama  
Date: 2022
Date: 2023
Date: 2023
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 At What Cost?
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'Tasmania, now.

'Boyd’s got enough on his plate between keeping a young family together and his responsibilities to land and people.

'But something’s happening. Every year more and more folk are claiming to be Palawa too. Folk no-one’s heard of until now, who haven’t been ‘round before. Are they legit? Or are they ‘tick-a-box’? Who decides? And how?

'If Boyd’s going to take everyone forward, they’re all going to have to go back, old mob or new, into the island’s knotty past. And they might not like what they find there.'

Source: Belvoir Street Theatre.

Production Details

  • Read at the Yellamundie Festival, 26 January 2019.

    Set for production by Belvoir Street Theatre at the Upstairs Theatre, 7 August - 5 September 2021.

    Director: Isaac Drandic.

    Production postponed, but not initially cancelled, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Rescheduled for production by Belvoir Street Theatre (Upstair Theatre) from 29 January to 20 February 2022.

    Director: Isaac Drandic.

    Cast: Luke Carroll (Boyd), Sandy Greenwood (Nala), Alex Malone (Gracie), and Jayden Popik (Daniel).

    Set Designer: Jacob Nash.

    Costume Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam.

    Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie.

    Composer: Brendon Boney.

    Sound Designer: David Bergman.

    Return season (limited) by Belvoir Street Theatre (Upstairs Theatre), 4 - 21 May 2023.

    Director: Isaac Drandic.

    Associate Director: Nathan Maynard.

    Cast: Luke Carroll (Boyd), Sandy Greenwood (Nala), Alex Malone (Gracie), and Ari Maza Long (Daniel).

    Set Designer: Jacob Nash.

    Costume Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam.

    Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie.

    Composer: Brendon Boney.

    Sound Designer: David Bergman.

    Presented by Queensland Theatre Company at Bille Brown Theatre, 25 May - 10 June 2023.

    Director: Isaac Drandic.

    Cast including Luke Carroll.

    Presented by State Theatre Company of South Australia (as a Belvoir St Theatre production), Odeon Theatre, 16 June - 1 July 2023.

    Director: Isaac Drandic.

    Associate Director: Nathan Maynard.

    Set Designer: Jacob Nash.

    Costume Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam.

    Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie.

    Composer: Brendon Boney.

    Sound Designer: David Bergman.

    Cast: Luke Carroll, Sandy Greenwood, Alex Malone, and Ari Maza Long.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2019
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2023 .
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      Extent: 68p.
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      •  Published May 2023

      ISBN: 9781760628215
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Works about this Work

At What Cost? Nathan Maynard Explores the Fraught Issue of Who Can Call Themselves Aboriginal, in the Safe Space of the Theatre Rudi Bremer , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2023;
— Review of At What Cost? Nathan Maynard , 2019 single work drama

'In 2016, the Tasmanian government scrapped the three-pronged criteria used to determine Aboriginality. Where people had previously needed to provide documentary evidence of Aboriginal ancestry, the new rules only require self-identification and communal recognition.' (Introduction)
How Luke Learned to Walk in Two Worlds 2023 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 3 May no. 800 2023; (p. 7) 'Wiradjuri man and actor Luke Carroll will appear in a new play At What Cost?'
New Play Questions the Nature of Identity Jillian Mundy , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 26 January no. 768 2022; (p. 30) 'ABORIGINALITY — it's the vexed theme of Nathan Maynard's new play At What Cost, which premieres this weekend in Sydney and there is little doubt the conversations will continue off stage long after the curtains are closed.'  
 
At What Cost? Nathan Maynard Explores the Fraught Issue of Who Can Call Themselves Aboriginal, in the Safe Space of the Theatre Rudi Bremer , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2023;
— Review of At What Cost? Nathan Maynard , 2019 single work drama

'In 2016, the Tasmanian government scrapped the three-pronged criteria used to determine Aboriginality. Where people had previously needed to provide documentary evidence of Aboriginal ancestry, the new rules only require self-identification and communal recognition.' (Introduction)
New Play Questions the Nature of Identity Jillian Mundy , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 26 January no. 768 2022; (p. 30) 'ABORIGINALITY — it's the vexed theme of Nathan Maynard's new play At What Cost, which premieres this weekend in Sydney and there is little doubt the conversations will continue off stage long after the curtains are closed.'  
 
How Luke Learned to Walk in Two Worlds 2023 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 3 May no. 800 2023; (p. 7) 'Wiradjuri man and actor Luke Carroll will appear in a new play At What Cost?'
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