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JANE HARRISON
(1960 - )Nationality: Australian
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Jane Harrison, a Muruwari descendant, was commissioned by Ilbijerri Theatre Co-operative to write Stolen, about the Stolen Generations. Stolen premiered in 1998, followed by seven annual seasons in Melbourne, plus tours to Sydney, Adelaide, regional Victoria, Tasmania, the UK (twice), Hong Kong and Tokyo, and readings in Canada and New York. Jane was the co-winner (with Dallas Winmar for aliwa!) of the Kate Challis RaKa award for Stolen. Stolen is studied on the VCe English and NSW HSC syllabi. On a Park Bench was workshopped at Playbox and the Banff Playrites Colony, and was a finalist in the Lake Macquarie Drama Prize. Rainbow's end premiered in 2005 at the Melbourne Museum and toured to Mooroopna, and will tour to Japan in 2007. Jane was the 2006 Theatrelab Indigenous award winner for her most recent play, Blakvelvet. She contributed one chapter to Many Voices, Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, published by the National Library, CanberrA. Her most important creation has been her two daughters.
Research: https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/231706
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Blakvelvet On A Park Bench Polygamy Rainbow's End Stolen Visitors, The WalkaboutBlakvelvet
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the 2006 theatrelab Indigenous Award winner
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a finalist in the Lake Macquarie Drama Prize.
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Workshopped At Playbox And The Banff Playrites Colony
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Top of PagePolygamy
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Thought your partner should be more athletic, more caring, more useful in the home or garden, or even more agile in bed? Who hasn't? Seems women have found the solution.
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Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC
03 Dec 2008
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Short & Sweet 2008 Top 20 Week 1
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short play
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https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/78217
Top of PageRainbow's End
The mood is pure 1950s. The Queen's visit. The Olympic Games. Bob Dyer's Pick-a-Box on the radio. The coming of television. Meanwhile three generations of Aboriginal women living on 'the Flats' - the banks of the Goulburn River - confront floods, prejudice and how to pay off encyclopedias. A generation after the Cummeragunga Walk-off the struggle continues. Nan Dear remembers - and continues to fight for the freedom that life on The Flats brings. Her daughter Gladys wants what all mothers want, a better life for her children, while daughter Dolly can't understand why they have to live life . . .
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Melbourne Museum, Carlton, VIC
18 Feb 2005
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the Ibijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Company
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Stolen tells of five young aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from society from their earliest years, not all of them successfully manage their lives when released into the outside world. the pain, poignancy and sheer desperation of their lives is seen through the children's own eyes as they struggle to make sense of a world where they have been told to forget their families, their homes and their language. This tender and moving story, awash with childlike humour, brings the tragic history of the Stolen Generations to the Australian stage.
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(Public Reading of the play that developed into Stolen - The Lost Children)
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Beckett Theatre, Southbank, VIC
21 Oct 1998
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the Ibijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Company
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Male: 6 Female: 5 Other: -
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https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/74170
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Seven senior law men, in fine suits, meet on the shores of a harbour to discuss the 11 large boats that have just arrived. Should they be welcomed to country or should these seven clan representatives of the Dharug nation, people from what became known as Sydney, combine to get rid of the unwelcome visitors? They take a vote it must be unanimous and one of them reckons the visitors mightnt be all bad. This is a powerful, imaginative response to the beginnings of modern Australia.
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Southbank Theatre, Southbank, VIC
06 Feb 2014
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Melbourne Theatre Company
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Currency Press, Australia - 2021
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Top of PageWalkabout
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An icon of 70s filmmaking, Walkabout is now the subject of an intriguing new work by Chamber Made Opera. Presented in a film studio setting, writer Jane Harrison, filmmaker and composer Richard Frankland, and company performers explore the aesthetic and Indigenous cultural issues raised by the film in a fusion of music, theatre, film and video.
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Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003
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Chunky Move Studios, Southbank, VIC
11 Oct 2003
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Opera (WIP)
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https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/32776
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