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'All Breythe ever wanted was to be an actor, but this isn’t how he imagined his first big television gig – as a young Aboriginal man, being the face of a disastrous misfire of an advertisement that will get him roasted by his mob.
'When a messenger bird suddenly brings Breythe tragic tidings from his family, it spurs him on a journey of grief and duty. Returning home to Kalgoorlie, he is thrust headlong into family conflict and the reality of what it means to be an Indigenous youth in today’s Australia.'
Source: Queensland Theatre Company.
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Supported by Playwriting Australia as part of its Muru Salon and National Script Workshop programs.
Production Details
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Produced by Queensland Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company (co-production), 29 June to 20 July 2019, Bille Brown Theatre (Queensland) and 26 July to 31 August, Griffin Theatre.
Director: Isaac Drandic.
Lighting Designer: Jason Gelnwright.
Cast includes Meyne Wyatt.
Produced by Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA and Sydney Theatre Company as part of Perth Festival, 4-26 March 2022, Heath Ledger Theatre.
Director: Shari Sebbens.
Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie.
Cast: Matthew Cooper, Ian Michael, and Meyne Wyatt.
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Awards
- 2020 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting
- 2020 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Drama
- 2019 nominated Sydney Theatre Awards — Best New Australian Work
- Kalgoorlie, Goldfields area, Southeast Western Australia, Western Australia,