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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2021 winner Northern Territory Literary Awards — Browns Mart Theatre Award for 'Calls to 1194'.
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2020
recipient
Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships
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BR Whiting Studio
International Development $ 10,000
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2019
recipient
Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships
$18,015
Awards for Works
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The Age of Bones - Jaman Belulang
2016
Wagait region/shire, Wagait Aboriginal Reserve
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Sandra Thibodeaux
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2016
14000494
2016
single work
drama
'The Age of Bones (Jaman Belulang) is an Australian-Indonesian co-production about an Indonesian boy, Ikan, who goes fishing one day and fails to return.
'Assuming the worst, his parents hire a legendary seafarer to look for his corpse. He finds nothing. The Age of Bones traces what happened to Ikan – from the day he left, to his eventual imprisonment in Australia and his fight to return home.
'Darwin writer Sandra Thibodeaux was inspired by the real-life stories of around 60 Indonesian boys who were allegedly jailed in Australia for working on refugee boats.
'The Age of Bones is mostly set under the ocean in an underwater court, a fantastical piece realized through shadow puppets, video and music'. (Production summary)
- 2016 shortlisted Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting
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