Rainbow's End

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Event Rainbow's End
Venue Melbourne Museum, Carlton, VIC
First Date 18 February 2005
Opening Date 18 February 2005
Last Date 5 March 2005
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description The mood is pure 1950s. The Queen's visit. The Olympic Games. Bob Dyer's Pick-a-Box on the radio. The coming of television. Meanwhile three generations of Aboriginal women living on 'the Flats' - the banks of the Goulburn River - confront floods, prejudice and how to pay off encyclopedias. A generation after the Cummeragunga Walk-off the struggle continues. Nan Dear remembers - and continues to fight for the freedom that life on The Flats brings. Her daughter Gladys wants what all mothers want, a better life for her children, while daughter Dolly can't understand why they have to live life ...
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Produced
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created
Subjects Indigenous Australia
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Beryl Booth Actor
Tammy Clarkson Actor
Gareth Ellis Actor
Pauline Whyman Actor
Christina Smith Designer
Wesley Enoch Director
Marko Respondeck Lighting Designer
Jane Harrison Playwright
David Franzke Sound Designer
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information Performed in the Sidney Myer Ampitheatre.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web http://ilbijerri.com.au/productions/project/rainbow-s-end/
Book John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 96807