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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
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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.
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Works about this Work
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Grimm Echoes in Tiwi Tale
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 April 2013; (p. 17)
— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui 2011 single work drama -
Remembering a Saltwater Man Called Bennelong
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 January 2013; (p. 6) -
Stage : Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 August 2011; (p. 14)
— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui 2011 single work drama -
Revelling in Tropical Absurdity
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 16 August 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui 2011 single work drama -
Youth Fetival Fuelled by Fertile Imaginations
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 31 March 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui 2011 single work drama ; When the Pictures Came 2010 single work drama ; Escape from Peligro Island 2011 single work drama
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Youth Fetival Fuelled by Fertile Imaginations
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 31 March 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui 2011 single work drama ; When the Pictures Came 2010 single work drama ; Escape from Peligro Island 2011 single work drama -
Revelling in Tropical Absurdity
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 16 August 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui 2011 single work drama -
Stage : Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 August 2011; (p. 14)
— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui 2011 single work drama -
Grimm Echoes in Tiwi Tale
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 April 2013; (p. 17)
— Review of Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui 2011 single work drama -
Remembering a Saltwater Man Called Bennelong
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 January 2013; (p. 6)