Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] created by Marrugeku

Fri Sep 15 2023 at 07:30 pm to Sat Sep 23 2023 at 08:50 pm

Heath Ledger Theatre | Perth

Black Swan State Theatre Company
Publisher/HostBlack Swan State Theatre Company
Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] created by Marrugeku
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Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA presents Marrugeku's

Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk]


Set within ‘the prison of the Australian mind’ Marrugeku’s Jurrungu Ngan-ga twists and turns its way through Indigenous and refugee stories cutting into the raw nerve of government sanctioned brutality in prisons and detention centres.


After a successful world tour it’s time for Perth audiences to be swept away by Jurrungu Ngan-ga’s visual feast for the senses with hypnotic storytelling that gives victims a face and interrogates our capacity to lock away and isolate that which we fear.


This provocative new dance theatre work designed by leading Western Australian visual artist Abdul- Rahman Abdullah fuses complex choreography searing dialogue and a blood-pumping musical soundscape. Co-created with Yawuru leader Patrick Dodson former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani and Iranian- Australian scholar-activist Omid Tofighian this is an exquisite work of great sophistication that throbs with sadness anger and joy.


Brutally beautiful Jurrungu Ngan-ga arrests your attention dares you to look away and dreams of the day we will know solidarity in difference.


"For all the sadness and anger at its heart Jurrungu Ngan-ga burns with ferocious life-affirming passion." The Australian


CHOREOGRAPHERS Dalisa Pigram with the performers Czack (Ses) Bero Emmanuel James Brown Chandler Connell Luke Currie- Richardson Issa el Assaad Zachary Lopez (previous) Macon Escobal Riley (present) Bhenji Ra Feras Shaheen & Miranda Wheen

DIRECTOR Rachael Swain

PERFORMANCE DRAMATURGY Hildegard de Vuyst

CULTURAL DRAMATURGY Behrouz Boochani Patrick Dodson & Omid Tofighian

MUSIC Sam Serruys Paul Charlier & Rhyan Clapham

LYRICS Beni (Bjah) Hasler

SOUND DESIGNER Sam Serruys & Paul Charlier

SCENIC DESIGNER Abdul-Rahman Abdullah

COSTUME DESIGNER Andrew Treloar

LIGHTING DESIGNER Damien Coope


APPROXIMATE RUNNING TIME

1 hour 20 minutes (no interval)


RECOMMENDED 15+

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Heath Ledger Theatre, 174-176 William St, Perth, Australia

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