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Nakkiah Lui

NAKKIAH LUI

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Nakkiah Lui grew up in Dhurag community in Western Sydney. She believes this is where her passion for writing came from; sharing the contemporary Indigenous experience through performance. Nakkiah was a founding member of the Indigenous Theatre Company `Nangarnr. She then wrote My Dreaming, Our awakening, the first radio play on the aBC Radio National `awaye'. Nakkiah was a writer for `Represent' to create a TV Series based on the lives of youth around Sydney. Nakkiah directed/wrote From Drag King to Law Queen (follows an aboriginal law student's journey to Drag Queen fame) and BabyGirl, was shown at the Chauvel cinema , aBC and NITV. Nakkiah is currently completing her Arts/Laws at the University of New South Wales. Nakkiah was a resident in atyp's Fresh Ink Playwright Residency 2010 and a playwright for the show Tell It Like It Isn't, atyp, 2011 (Brown Lips). Nakkiah is a Playwriting Australia Resident at Belvoir for 2012.

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below is a list of Nakkiah Lui's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Brown Lips         Kill the Messenger         Prisoner And Soldier, The         This Heaven

Brown Lips

Brown Lips
a short, sharp, evocative collection of monologues written by some of Australias leading young and established playwrights. each piece is crafted for an actor aged between 16 and 20. Subtle, uplifting, poetic and funny, these pieces are as exciting and diverse as the young actors that perform them.

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Part of the Voices Project

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short monologue

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Kill the Messenger

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Set in Western Sydney, the lives of five individuals collide around questions of familial bonds, institutionalised racism and the value of life. Paul is an addict; his sister Harley witnesses his descent with despair, trying to hold onto the brother she loves. Nakkiah and Peter are lovers, fighting and navigating their way around each other's worlds. Alex is a nurse, caught between grieving families and an uncompromising system. Gamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander playwright Nakkiah Lui wrote this play as a response to the deaths of two people - one was a man she had never met, the other was the love of her life. Lui was told a true story about a man in her home suburb of Mount Druitt. One day, in unbearable pain due to undiagnosed stomach cancer, he went to the local hospital, where he was refused care. Then he went to a nearby park and hung himself. In 2012 Nakkiah's grandmother fell through the unmended floor of her public housing home and died. The theme of Kill the Messenger? Institutionalised racism.

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Currency Press   978-1925005370

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Prisoner And Soldier, The

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part of Short + Sweet Festival, Sydney 2010

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short play

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This Heaven

This Heaven
Sissy Gordon's Father died in custody at Mount Druitt Police Station. the cops got a fine, Sissy's family got $9,000 and noone is allowed to speak about it. Sissy is about to become a lawyer but tonight lawyers and the law are beside the point. Tonight the night is dirty and heavy, and the moon is swollen and bright. everyone knows that on nights like this things happen. Nakkiah Lui's This Heaven is about a family who find themselves at a flash point of oppression, loss, love and anger. Lui turns the streets and parks of Mount Druitt into a fierce public forum where the essential matters of what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad are up for grabs. At the centre of it is the question: does doing nothing make you as complicit as the perpetrators?

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in Downstairs at Belvoir Vol 2, Playlab   978 1 925338 20 1

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