Description
Proppa Solid by Steven Oliver
Paul: My heritage?
Ruth: Your Aboriginality.
Paul: I’m not a practising Aboriginal. Or is it Aborigine?
Ruth: I get confused as well.
A humorous story, brimming with Aboriginal vernacular and optimism, about how things are, what they could be and the importance of remembering your roots.
Paul Toppy, is your everyday Aboriginal President of Australia. The problem is Paul doesn’t know much about being Aboriginal. All that changes, however, when, one day, while on the election trail, Paul steps onto country.
Delirium by Amy Bell
In the soporific heat of a North Queensland wet season, mosquitoes buzz incessantly as these six stories unfold, each with its own grisly twist. From a clinical hospital ward, to red dirt and rose gardens, our human foibles are brought to the fore in a quest to understand our dysfunctional relationship with Mother Nature.
Propelled by Jane Modric in collaboration with Doug Robins
Doug is 25 years old. He likes football, partying with his mates, and girls. He’s pretty much your average guy except for one big difference. Doug has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and negotiates life’s twists and turns in a wheel chair. Armed with a whole lot of smarts, an impressive capacity for patience and a keen awareness of life’s absurdities, Doug takes a heroic journey into the liminal worlds between boy and man, man and machine, the real and the fantastical, to discover who he is, and in the process finds a path uniquely his own.
Production History
Proppa Solid was developed by JUTE Theatre Company under the title Proper Solid with support from the Department of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander & Multicultural Affairs (DATSIMA) premiering at JUTE Theatre Company on July 25, 2014.
Propelled was first performed 31 January, 2014 at the JUTE Theatre Company, Centre of Contemporary Arts, Cairns, Queensland.
ISBN: 978 1 921390 94 4