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Richard Frankland Richard Frankland i(A34866 works by) (a.k.a. Richard J. Frankland)
Born: Established: 1963 Portland, Portland area, Western District, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal Kilkurt Gilga ; Aboriginal Gunditjmara ; Aboriginal
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Details of Works Taught

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Blak Inside : 6 Indigenous Plays from Victoria John Harding , Tammy Anderson , Tracey Rigney , Maryanne Sam , Jadah Milroy , Richard Frankland , Playbox Theatre , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z950463 2002 anthology drama (taught in 1 units)

Contains six plays.

Enuff by John Harding is a frightening and funny play about an Australian future where black patience has run out. A violent uprising is planned for Reconciliation Day – will retribution or forgiveness prevail?

I Don't wanna Play House by Tammy Anderson is the moving story of her childhood. A truly remarkable account of the triumph of the human spirit.

Belonging by Tracey Rigney recounts the taunts and temptations of a school girl, and her personal struggle to remain true to her culture, and herself.

Casting Doubts by Maryanne Sam is a funny, and at times heart-wrenching, play about an actors' casting agency with more colour charts than a paint shop, and the problems that Indigenous actors face.

Crowfire by Jadah Milroy is the story of a young, urban Indigenous Australian woman, and a man from a desert community lured into the city. The moving story of a search for identity and the need for reconciliation.

Conservations with the Dead by Richard J Frankland is a poetic and savage play that takes you into the aching sorrow of deaths in custody.

Contemporary Australian Drama Flinders University 2010 (Semester 1)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
Conversations with the Dead Richard Frankland , 2002 single work drama (taught in 2 units)
— Appears in: Blak Inside : 6 Indigenous Plays from Victoria 2002; (p. 215-287)

'Jack, a young, ambitious Koorie is juggling the contradictions of working in both black and white worlds. How does he stay true to his cultural responsibilities whilst the justice system he works for fails to understand the pain and rage of his people?

'Conversations with the Dead is Richard Frankland’s response to being an investigator during the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-1991).'

Source: Arts Centre Melbourne (2019 production).

Minorities and Majorities in Australian Theatre University of New England 2009
Conversations with the Dead Richard Frankland , 2002 single work drama (taught in 2 units)
— Appears in: Blak Inside : 6 Indigenous Plays from Victoria 2002; (p. 215-287)

'Jack, a young, ambitious Koorie is juggling the contradictions of working in both black and white worlds. How does he stay true to his cultural responsibilities whilst the justice system he works for fails to understand the pain and rage of his people?

'Conversations with the Dead is Richard Frankland’s response to being an investigator during the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-1991).'

Source: Arts Centre Melbourne (2019 production).

Minorities and Majorities in Australian Theatre University of New England 2011 (Semester 2)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Digger J. Jones Digger J. Jones : Holy Snappin' Duckpoo! : My Diary Richard Frankland , Lindfield : Scholastic Press Scholastic Press , 2007 Z1363824 2007 single work novel young adult (taught in 4 units)

'Digger is keeping a diary about the things that matter to him: piffing yonnies at the meatworks, fishing with his cousins, and brawling with the school bully. But it's 1967, and bigger things keep getting in the way. Digger is finding out who he is, what he believes, and what's worth fighting for.' (Source: Goodreads website)

Children's Fiction Charles Sturt University 2012 (Semester 1, Semester 2)
y separately published work icon Digger J. Jones Digger J. Jones : Holy Snappin' Duckpoo! : My Diary Richard Frankland , Lindfield : Scholastic Press Scholastic Press , 2007 Z1363824 2007 single work novel young adult (taught in 4 units)

'Digger is keeping a diary about the things that matter to him: piffing yonnies at the meatworks, fishing with his cousins, and brawling with the school bully. But it's 1967, and bigger things keep getting in the way. Digger is finding out who he is, what he believes, and what's worth fighting for.' (Source: Goodreads website)

Literature for Children and Young Adults Deakin University 2014 (Trimester 1)
y separately published work icon Digger J. Jones Digger J. Jones : Holy Snappin' Duckpoo! : My Diary Richard Frankland , Lindfield : Scholastic Press Scholastic Press , 2007 Z1363824 2007 single work novel young adult (taught in 4 units)

'Digger is keeping a diary about the things that matter to him: piffing yonnies at the meatworks, fishing with his cousins, and brawling with the school bully. But it's 1967, and bigger things keep getting in the way. Digger is finding out who he is, what he believes, and what's worth fighting for.' (Source: Goodreads website)

Literature for Children and Young Adults Deakin University 2015 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon Digger J. Jones Digger J. Jones : Holy Snappin' Duckpoo! : My Diary Richard Frankland , Lindfield : Scholastic Press Scholastic Press , 2007 Z1363824 2007 single work novel young adult (taught in 4 units)

'Digger is keeping a diary about the things that matter to him: piffing yonnies at the meatworks, fishing with his cousins, and brawling with the school bully. But it's 1967, and bigger things keep getting in the way. Digger is finding out who he is, what he believes, and what's worth fighting for.' (Source: Goodreads website)

Literature for Children and Young Adults Deakin University 2016 (Semester 1)
Text Unit Name Institution Year
form y separately published work icon Harry's War Richard Frankland , ( dir. Richard Frankland ) Torquay : Golden Seahorse Productions , 1999 Z862513 1999 single work film/TV (taught in 2 units)

Harry Saunders's decision to join the army during the Second World War and fight for his country is largely motivated by his desire to fight for the rights of Indigenous people. Harry hopes that in fighting alongside the white citizens of Australia, he will help Indigenous people to eventually win citizenship. Prejudice and racism, however, are not so easily overcome, as Harry soon finds out.

(Source: Australian Screen.)

Australian Film and Literature University of South Australia 2011 (Semester 2)
form y separately published work icon Harry's War Richard Frankland , ( dir. Richard Frankland ) Torquay : Golden Seahorse Productions , 1999 Z862513 1999 single work film/TV (taught in 2 units)

Harry Saunders's decision to join the army during the Second World War and fight for his country is largely motivated by his desire to fight for the rights of Indigenous people. Harry hopes that in fighting alongside the white citizens of Australia, he will help Indigenous people to eventually win citizenship. Prejudice and racism, however, are not so easily overcome, as Harry soon finds out.

(Source: Australian Screen.)

Australia Imagined: Identity and Diversity in Australian Film and Literature University of South Australia 2012 (Semester 2)
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