Performance Dates
13 Sept 2001 – 6 Oct 2001September 2001
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Details
- Playwright
- Andrew Bovell
- Director
- Rosalba Clemente
AddressThe Merlyn, CUB Malthouse, Sturt Street, Southbank
"a prayer for the country of lost children"
WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION
Playbox presents State Theatre South Australia
On the white frontier in mid nineteenth-century Australia, a lone bloodied woman arrives at a traveller's rest in the midst of a violent desert storm. She has a shocking story to tell.
She claims that the natives have murdered her husband and stolen her infant child. The only witness to a different story is an Aboriginal woman.
The narrative draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape.
What would cause a missionary's wife to lie? What chance does the word of a native woman have against hers?
Holy Day is a chilling mystery about white fear and black resistance, a powerful drama about truth and trust. It is tense, tender, evocative and theatrical. It is a cry to find the courage to understand our past.
AWGIE award-winning writer Andrew Bovell - Strictly Ballroom, After Dinner, Head On - has enjoyed a recent sell-out season in London with his masterpiece Speaking In Tongues, seen at Playbox in 1998 and soon to be a major new film, Lantana.
'Â…stylish, audacious, marvellously satisfying theatreÂ…rich in ideas, utterly diverting in theatricality.' Sun Herald
"Most women do not make a life out here where gentility is a liability. I have stood by my husband's side in his desire to bring God to this country. I have needed every ounce of fortitude to do so."
Bookings
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