30 years of Indigenous storytelling with depth and generosity
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company marks three decades of sharing Indigenous stories with the world.
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Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company marks three decades of sharing Indigenous stories with the world.
Read our reviews of shows to savour this week in Melbourne: dance works Flux Job and Sky Blue Mythic, and plays Yentl and Black Cockatoo.
Review: The Cherry Orchard, directed by Clare Watson. Black Swan State Theatre Company for the Perth Festival. Stories get told over and over, each version sitting atop every other in a never-ending palimpsest. Extracting and extending the metaphors of Anton Chekhov’s classic 1904 play The Cherry Orchard, this production adapted by Adriane Daff and Katherine Tonkin and directed by Clare Watson is as much about its staging at a former hospital as it is about the story and characters. Reimagined in 1980s Western Australia, the parallels to Chekhov’s treatise on class and land work well: the...