Playreading Group
13/05/2024 - 13/05/2024 1pm - 4pm
Rowden White Library Screening Room, Building 162, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010
UMSU Union House Theatre
Brought to you by the SSAF
Calling all theatre and playwriting nerds!
UHT alumnus and theatremaker Charlotte Rogers will lead a playreadng group for theatre lovers. Get together with your fellow theatre friends and read, dissect and critique plays.
This week, the play to be discussed is "No Sugar" written by Indigenious Australian playwright, Jack Davis.
No Sugar is set in Northam, Western Australia. It tells the story of the fight for survival of the Millimurra-Munday family during the Depression years, 1929 to 1934.
First performed in 1985, the play is part of Jack Davis’s The First Born trilogy which comprises three plays that trace the history of Aboriginal people in Western Australia from 1829 to the present.
No Sugar explores the harsh treatment of the Western Australian aboriginal (Nyoongah) people at the hands of white administrators. However, it also celebrates their resilience in the face of brutality and and their determination to maintain their culture.
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