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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 mightn’t be all bad. This is a powerful, imaginative response to the beginnings of modern Australia.' (Production summary)
Production Details
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Presented by Melbourne Theatre Company and performed as part of the Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival, 6-8 February 2014.
Director: Leah Purcell
Cast: Sermsah Bin Saad, Kamahi Djordon King, Greg Fryer, James Henry, Glenn Maynard, Leroy Parsons, and Glenn Shea.
Developed with the assistance of Moogahlin Theatre Company. Performed as part of the Sydney Festival, 22-26 January 2020.
Cast: John Blair, Damion Hunter, Colin Kinchela, Nathan Leslie, Leroy Parsons, Glenn Shea, and Kerri Simpson.
Director: Frederick Copperwaite.
Producer: Liza-Mare Syron.
Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie.
Sound Designer: Phil Downing.
Community Liaison & Assistant Sound Designer: Timothy Gray.
Production Manager: Liv Anstis.
Assistant Producer: Corrine Shepherd.
Set and Costume Designer: Lisa Mimmochi.
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Festival Platform Shares Our Voice
2020
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 15 January no. 717 2020; (p. 28-29) Sydney Festival's Blak Out program is the largest single commissioner of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works in the country. Artistic director Wesley Enoch said Sydney Festival 2020 presents 46 new co-commissioned works, a great many with Indigenous themes at their heart. "There's politics and social perspectives all throughout everything we do," Enoch said. "And it's interesting this idea of history and retrospectives. When you have someone like (visual artist) Vernon Ah Kee doing his work, called The Island, which is looking at Palm Island and (artist) Fiona Foley and her exhibition work, it's both the contemporary and the historical sitting side by side. "When there is more representation, you can look at the diversity of the voices that non-Indigenous Australia is hearing from us."
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The Visitors Review : A Witty Imagining of What Went before That Fateful Encounter
2020
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 January 2020;
— Review of The Visitors 2014 single work drama'Sydney Festival has really outdone themselves this season with a spectacular line-up of Indigenous shows to choose from including The Visitors.'
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The Visitors Review : A Witty Imagining of What Went before That Fateful Encounter
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 January 2020;
— Review of The Visitors 2014 single work drama'Sydney Festival has really outdone themselves this season with a spectacular line-up of Indigenous shows to choose from including The Visitors.'
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Festival Platform Shares Our Voice
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 15 January no. 717 2020; (p. 28-29) Sydney Festival's Blak Out program is the largest single commissioner of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works in the country. Artistic director Wesley Enoch said Sydney Festival 2020 presents 46 new co-commissioned works, a great many with Indigenous themes at their heart. "There's politics and social perspectives all throughout everything we do," Enoch said. "And it's interesting this idea of history and retrospectives. When you have someone like (visual artist) Vernon Ah Kee doing his work, called The Island, which is looking at Palm Island and (artist) Fiona Foley and her exhibition work, it's both the contemporary and the historical sitting side by side. "When there is more representation, you can look at the diversity of the voices that non-Indigenous Australia is hearing from us."
