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Richard Walley Richard Walley i(A17933 works by)
Born: Established: 1953 Meekatharra, Gascoyne - Murchison area, North Western Australia, Western Australia, Mullewa, Eneabba - Morawa - Mullewa area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Yamaji ; Aboriginal Noongar / Nyoongar / Nyoongah / Nyungar / Nyungah/Noonygar
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 y separately published work icon The Dolphin and the Spearfisher Alton Walley , Richard Walley (illustrator), Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 2020 18448632 2020 single work picture book

'Follow Keek and Gidgi, two brothers with a profound love for the oceans and rivers. This coming of age story follows the learnings of  these young future leaders in the final days of the warmer seasons.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 3 Balaan, Balaan Gwdha Richard Walley , 1992 single work drama

'Richard Walley has woven stories about and by Aboriginal people into a loosely-knitted, episodic play. The contemporary story, about life in the Office of Aboriginal Planning is broken by dance sequences which portray the suffering of Aboriginal people since 1788. Segments of poetry are also used to break the action and the result is a fragmented production.' (Source: AusStage website)
1 3 Munjong Richard Walley , 1990 single work drama
1 Coordah Richard Walley , 1990 extract drama (Coordah)
— Appears in: Aboriginal Voices : Contemporary Aboriginal Artists, Writers and Performers 1990; (p. 66)
1 Richard Walley : Director and Playwright Richard Walley , 1990 single work autobiography essay
— Appears in: Aboriginal Voices : Contemporary Aboriginal Artists, Writers and Performers 1990; (p. 65, 67-69)
1 7 y separately published work icon Plays From Black Australia Coordah, Murras, The Dreamers, The Keepers. Jack Davis , Eva Johnson , Richard Walley , Bob Maza , Paddington : Currency Press , 1989 Z13325 1989 anthology drama (taught in 1 units)

New writing from old Australians this collection presents Aboriginal playwrights using the dramatic form to tell how black and white Australians interact.'

'These are modern, urban plays, but traditional beliefs give strength and resilience to many of the characters in them. These city dwellers are joined to the land and their dreaming, with ancient bonds of common belief; the four plays provide a remarkable, often humorous insight into Aboriginal experience in Australia.' (Source: backcover)
1 8 Coordah Richard Walley , 1989 single work drama
— Appears in: Plays From Black Australia 1989; (p. 109-166)

This play examines life in a small country town during two periods, the 1940s and the 1980s, and focuses on the search for identity in the Aboriginal community of Coordah.
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