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+
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Heath Ledger Theatre, 174-176 William St, Perth, Australia