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Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui single work   drama   children's   young adult  
Note: Based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui
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'A new Aboriginal play with songs and puppetry. Using the language and rhyme of the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin, Wulamanayuwi tells the story of a young girl and her experiences with the spirit-beings of a mystical, dreamtime land.

In the tradition of the Grimms Brothers tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Wulamanayuwi, daughter of the Rainbow Serpent totem, runs away from her evil stepmother into a land of water spirits, dingoes, wallabies and frogs. Guided by a white cockatoo, Wulamanayuwi meets the seven Pamanui (spirit-beings) who, in a quest to seek revenge and justice, will lead her back home via a path of myth and magic, disaster and adventure.

Told through story and song and narrated by Jarparra, the Moon Man, this new play mixes the enchanting tradition of European fairytales with the Palaneri or Dreaming characters and stories of the Tiwi Islands.' Source: www.cyberpaddock.com.au/ (Sighted 18/04/2011).

Production Details

  • Presented at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute , 29 March 2011 in association with the Darwin Festival (August 11-28) and Ten Days on the Island (April 1-3) 2011, as part of the 2011 Come Out Festival, Adelaide. Director: Eamon Flack.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Grimm Echoes in Tiwi Tale Philip O'Brien , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 April 2013; (p. 17)

— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis , 2011 single work drama
Remembering a Saltwater Man Called Bennelong Steve Dow , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 January 2013; (p. 6)
Stage : Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Murray Bramwell , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 August 2011; (p. 14)

— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis , 2011 single work drama
Revelling in Tropical Absurdity Ashleigh Wilson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 16 August 2011; (p. 15)

— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis , 2011 single work drama
Youth Fetival Fuelled by Fertile Imaginations Murray Bramwell , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 31 March 2011; (p. 15)

— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis , 2011 single work drama ; When the Pictures Came Finegan Kruckemeyer , 2010 single work drama ; Escape from Peligro Island Finegan Kruckemeyer , 2011 single work drama
Youth Fetival Fuelled by Fertile Imaginations Murray Bramwell , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 31 March 2011; (p. 15)

— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis , 2011 single work drama ; When the Pictures Came Finegan Kruckemeyer , 2010 single work drama ; Escape from Peligro Island Finegan Kruckemeyer , 2011 single work drama
Revelling in Tropical Absurdity Ashleigh Wilson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 16 August 2011; (p. 15)

— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis , 2011 single work drama
Stage : Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Murray Bramwell , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 August 2011; (p. 14)

— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis , 2011 single work drama
Grimm Echoes in Tiwi Tale Philip O'Brien , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 April 2013; (p. 17)

— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis , 2011 single work drama
Remembering a Saltwater Man Called Bennelong Steve Dow , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 January 2013; (p. 6)
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