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ANDREA JAMES |
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Nationality: Australian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Andrea James, a graduate of La Trobe University and the Victorian College of the Arts, is Artistic Director of Melbourne Workers Theatre. Most recently she co-directed Crowfire for Playbox's Blak Inside season, and Magpie for Melbourne Workers Theatre. She recognises theatre as a place where oppressed people and classes can find unity, strength, power, expression and language. Theatre is about the only place in today's society where she can hear and speak the language of her father's people - the Yorta Yorta. James is of Aboriginal and Polish descent.
Plays by Andrea James
Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country | ||
| 1st Produced: | La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia >>> | 16 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | ILBIJERRI THEATRE COMPANY and the Minutes of Evidence Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133929 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Concept by Giordano Nanni; Directed by Isaac Drandic; Dramaturgy by Rachael Maza Long; Adapted by Andrea James & Giordano Nanni | |||||
Synopsis: | VICTORIA, 1881: the men and women of the 'Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve' take on the Board for the Protection of Aborigines in a fight for justice, dignity and self-determination. For the first time, we bring back to life Coranderrk's voices both black and white through a re-enactment of their official testimonies before the 1881 Government Inquiry into Coranderrk. | |||||
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Yanagai! Yanagai! | ||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press, Sydney | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0868197081 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52478 | |||
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Genre: | Full-Length 90 mins Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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| We are in a mythical landscape on the banks of a mighty river. The Yorta Yorta know him as 'Dhungula'. The white fellas call it 'The Murray'. A clan of storytellers has gathered to invoke the beautiful place they once knew; to sing it into being. Some are stories of remembering, others are told so that they may never happen again. Children and elders, spirits and ghosts, dingoes and min-min lights are threaded together in these tales of colonial law, a people and their land. The land rights struggle of the Yorta Yorta people continues today. | |||||
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