Yibiyung – Program - Belvoir St Theatre

Roma Winmar speaks aboutLANGUAGEPrior to settlement there were manylanguage groups within Australia.The Tindale maps 1 show them witha multiplicity of lines, so manythat they look like road markings.Not only that, there were alsomany different dialects within thelanguages. Yet when you talk aboutit to people now, many are ignorantof the fact that people actually hadlanguages of their own…All of a sudden they… someone…the powers that be came over andsaid “Now you will learn God’slanguage… now you will learn tospeak our language”. (In reality, I’mnot saying everybody either. Youcan’t say ‘They did this’ because it’snot They at all, it was individualsthat changed; made policies andeverything else.)When you take away the language ofanybody you take away their culture.Gradually, of course, if you look atthe Tindale maps, it’s like an eraserhas slowly gone over them; themarks sort of fading, or blendinginto one, you know. Then comes theopportunity for regeneration…Language is something that’s inyour – well I reckon it’s in yourgenes. You’re born to it, youhear it and it doesn’t matter howlong you’ve been away from it, ifsomebody starts talking, you know,you can feel a sort of growth insideyou; the familiarity of something…I’d heard it but never spoke it. Iwas the youngest and discouragedfrom speaking it, well, because ofthe powers that be. You’re learningyour standard Australian English andyou’re looking to the future and that’swhere your future’s going to be, bybeing an Australian… but, you weren’tquite an Australian because youweren’t counted in the census andthat wasn’t until 1967, right?But all the time, all through theyears, mum always, when shewanted to speak Language, she did…Then, when I was teaching in Perth, aflyer came around saying ‘If anyone’sinterested in Noongar languagesor Indigenous languages we’rehaving workshops.’ This came aboutbecause prior to that about a hundredrepresentatives from over the statehad come in and spoken with theEducation Department and said: “Wewant our languages taught in theschools – instead of French… Wewant an opportunity”…The first time I went to the languagegroup and the oldies were theresaying “This is the word, this is howyou say it,” I was overwhelmed… Iwas still overwhelmed by the time Igot to my second presentation andthe only thing I could say was: “Well,I’m having a go at the language, butI’m overwhelmed because it wasmy mother’s language.” And all ofa sudden, all of a sudden in sayingthe words and actually speakingsentences, it was like a regrowthinside, where it starts right fromyour toes and just sort of comesright up and fills you with somethingthat was there all the time.1 N.B Tindale created maps in the1940s outlining the Indigenous groupboundaries that existed at the time offirst European settlement in Australia.

POLICIES OFTHE TIMEAt the turn of the century the livesof Indigenous people in WesternAustralia became increasinglydefined and controlled by anumber of laws and policies. In1897 the Western AustralianGovernment, significantly,assumed responsibility for theadministration of Indigenousaffairs. This followed a decadeof wrangling with the BritishGovernment for control. Underthe provisions of the AboriginesAct 1897, the AboriginesDepartment of Western Australiawas formed. It replaced theAborigines Protection Boardand was headed by the ChiefProtector of Aborigines, HenryPrinsep. The Department wasmade responsible for the wellbeing of all Indigenous peoplein Western Australia, and givencontrol over the provision of reliefto the elderly, sick and destitute.The Act also placed a number ofrestrictions on Indigenous people,including making it an offence forany Indigenous person to entera public house, simultaneouslyincreasing police powers to enforcethese provisions.The Chief Protector argued thatfurther control was needed.Particularly, he was concerned withthe number of children of mixeddescent growing up in ‘nativecamps’. He declared that theylearned only “laziness and vice”and left to their own devices wouldgrow up “vagrants and outcasts”and “not only a disgrace, but amenace to society.” With tightergovernment control he arguedthese children could become“useful workers” (quoted by AnnaHaebich, For Their Own Good,University of Western AustraliaPress, 1992, 57).His arguments led to the passingof the Aborigines Act 1905,which made the Chief Protectorof Aborigines the legal guardianof all ‘aboriginal’ and ‘half caste’children up to the age of 16years, enabling him to send any‘aboriginal’ and ‘half caste’ childto an orphanage, mission, orindustrial school, with or withoutthe child’s parents’ permission.The Government held controlover the movement of Indigenouspeople, setting up prohibited areasand native reserves. The 1905 Act

BIOGRAPHIESDALLASWINMARWriterDallas is a Western Australian writerwho first worked with Company Bin 2001 on the staging of her playAliwa. This play was first showcasedin Perth by Yirra Yaakin NoongarTheatre and was developed at theNational Playwright’s Conferencein 1999 and 2000. She was thencommissioned by Kooemba JdarraTheatre Company to write Skin Deepfor their 2000 program. Yibiyungis her third play, with which sheattended the Australian NationalPlaywright’s Conference in 2006 andthe PlayWriting Australia NationalScript Workshop in 2007. Dallaswas jointly awarded the Kate ChallisRAKA Award in 2002 for Aliwa(alongside Jane Harrison for Stolen).Aliwa was also short-listed forthe script category of the WesternAustralian Premier’s Book Awards,nominated for commendation forThe Louis Esson Prize for Drama:Shortlist 2003 and has beenpublished by Currency Press.WESLEY ENOCHDirectorWesley is the eldest son of Dougand Lyn Enoch, who hail fromStradbroke Island. He is currentlyan Associate Artist at Company Bwhere his directing credits includePaul, Parramatta Girls, Capricornia,The Dreamers and Conversationswith the Dead. Other credits includeThe Sapphires (Melbourne TheatreCompany) which was remounted forCompany B and Sydney Festival 2005;Black Medea (Company B/MalthouseMelbourne); Stolen (Playbox TheatreCompany) which has toured bothnationally and internationally;Maralinga (Alphaville Productions);Riverland (Windmill Performing Arts/Adelaide and Perth InternationalFestivals); Eora Crossing (Legs onthe Wall/Sydney Festival 2003);Purple Dreams, Bitin’ Back (KooembaJdarra Indigenous Performing Arts);Shrunken Iris, Rainbow’s End (IlbijerriAboriginal and Torres Strait IslandersTheatre Cooperative) as well asHeadhunter (Ilbijerri/Polygot PuppetTheatre). While Resident Directorwith Sydney Theatre Company hisproductions included Black Medea,The Sunshine Club, Black-ed Up andThe Cherry Pickers, which also touredthe UK. In 2002, Sydney TheatreCompany remounted The 7 Stagesof Grieving, which he co-wrote withDeborah Mailman. Recently, Wesleywas Artistic Director of Australia’sdelegation to the 2008 Festival ofPacific Arts in American Samoa.He has also been Artistic Directorof Kooemba Jdarra IndigenousPerforming Arts and Ilbijerri Aboriginaland Torres Strait Islander TheatreCooperative, an Associate Artist withthe Queensland Theatre Company,Director of the Indigenous Section ofthe Opening Ceremony of the 2006Commonwealth Games, is currentlya Trustee of the Sydney Opera Houseand is also a member of the NSWGovernment Arts Advisory Counciland numerous other committees. Hiswriting credits include The Story ofthe Miracles at Cookie’s Table, The 7Stages of Grieving, Grace, A Life ofGrace and Piety, The Sunshine Cluband Black Medea. Wesley was thewinner of the 2005 Patrick WhitePlaywright’s Award for his play TheStory of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table,staged by Griffin Theatre Company/HotHouse Theatre in 2007. He wasalso awarded the 2007 QPAC MatildaAward in recognition of his services tothe arts.REBECCAANDERSONStage ManagerRebecca has worked in stagemanagement and productioncoordination since graduating fromthe Centre for the PerformingArts in 1994. Her previousproductions with Company Binclude The Small Poppies, TwelfthNight and The Laramie Project.Among her other theatre creditsare Urfaust (Performing Lines);The Cost of Living (DV8 PhysicalTheatre); Twinkle, Twinkle LittleFish (Windmill Performing Arts)and numerous Womadelaidegigs. Rebecca has also workedextensively with the State TheatreCompany of South Australia,worked in production on the 1996,1998, 2006 and 2008 AdelaideArts Festivals and was the SiteCoordinator at Becks Festival Bar(Sydney Festival 2005).

Australian Ballet. He has workedon a number of productions forCompany B including Keating!, Paul,Parramatta Girls, Capricornia, Boxthe Pony, In Our Name, Gulpilil, Page8 and The Spook. His other theatrecredits include Ruben Guthrie andJesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (B Sharp/murri fulla films); Gallipoli, TheGreat, Romeo and Juliet, The Tamingof the Shrew, Embers, The 7 Stagesof Grieving, Fat Pig, A Hard God,Stolen (Sydney Theatre Company);Romeo and Juliet (Bell Shakespeare)and also The Suitors and VitalOrgans (Easily Distracted). Fordance, Steve has composed musicfor True Stories, Skin, Corroboree,Walkabout, Bush, Boomerang(Bangarra Dance Theatre) and Totem(The Australian Ballet). He has alsoproduced and co-composed musicfor Awakenings, the Indigenoussection of the Sydney OlympicGames Opening Ceremony, as wellas Earth for the Rugby World CupOpening. His compositions for filmand televison include the music forthe recent mini-series Dangerous aswell as the Melbourne Film FestivalAward-winning documentary MrPatterns, the AFI Award-winningshort film Box; the documentariesMacumba and Picture the Womenand the Dendy Award-winning filmsBlack Talk and Djarn Djarns. Hisawards include the 2003 HelpmannAward for Best Original Score forWalkabout.ROXANNEMcDONALDCook/AuntyRoxanne is a proud blackwoman who is descended fromthe Mandandanjii, Darambaland Kangalou tribes of CentralQueensland. She is regarded asone of Brisbane’s finest and mostversatile actors. In Sydney shehas performed in Company B’sParramatta Girls and Griffin TheatreCompany’s The Story of the Miraclesat Cookie’s Table. Other theatrecredits include Radiance (KooembaJdarra Indigenous Performing Arts/Queensland Theatre Company);Romeo & Juliet (Kooemba Jdarra/La Boite Theatre Company); TheCherry Pickers, Yarnin’ Up, Betheland Maude, A Life of Grace and Piety,Black Shorts, Skin Deep, SeemsLike Yesterday, Luck of the Draw,Njunjul the Sun, Changing Time,Spirit (Kooemba Jdarra); Richard II,The Skin of Our Teeth, The SunshineClub, Fountains Beyond, Black-edUp, Brolgas Touring Programs(Queensland Theatre Company);Murri Time (Kite Theatre);Coriolanus (Fractal Theatre) andThe Taming of the Shrew (La BoiteTheatre Company). Her film creditsinclude Grace and My Country. In

2000 Roxanne received a specialcommendation Matilda Award.Recently she co-wrote a radio playcalled Caravans with SteveMayer-Miller, Director of CrossroadArts in Mackay.BRUCEMcKINVENCostume DesignerBruce graduated from QueenslandUniversity of Technology’s VisualArts course in 1994 and NIDA’sDesign course in 1997. Prior toNIDA he was Design Assistantfor various Brisbane and Sydneybasedcompanies. With CompanyB he was Assistant CostumeDesigner on The Adventures ofSnugglepot & Cuddlepie and LittleRagged Blossom (co-produced withWindmill Performing Arts). Otherset and costume design creditsinclude The Story of the Miraclesat Cookie’s Table (Griffin TheatreCompany); Othello [costumes](Bell Shakespeare); The DyingGaul, Hamlet [set] (State TheatreCompany of South Australia); Bill &Mary, A Conversation, The LonesomeWest, Proof, Eating Ice Cream withyour Eyes Closed, God is a DJ,Vincent in Brixton, Hitchcock Blonde,A Streetcar Named Desire, AmericanBuffalo, Constance Drinkwater,Private Fears in Public Places, Heroes,Prisoner of Second Avenue, TheAugust Moon (Queensland TheatreCompany); Last Drinks, UrbanDingoes, Walking by Apple Tree Creek(La Boite Theatre Company) andThe 7 Stages of Grieving (SydneyTheatre Company – Education).For dance, he has designed for KateChampion’s Force Majeure, AustralianDance Theatre, Expressions DanceCompany, Tasdance, West AustralianBallet, Natalie Weir, Garry Stewart,Brian Lucas and Clare Dyson. Forthe Adelaide Festival, Bruce workedin numerous production and designroles from 1994 to 2004. Hisfilm credits include Wardrobe ArtFinisher on Mission Impossible II andCostume/Props Maker on ScoobyDoo. In 2001, Bruce was awardedThe Mike Walsh Fellowship whichenabled him to work with Dublindance company CoisCéim.KYLEMORRISONAssistant DirectorKyle has been working in the theatreindustry in Western Australia asan actor for fourteen years with fortheatre companies such as BlackSwan Theatre Company, DeckchairTheatre and Yirra Yaakin NoongarTheatre. As a Director Kyle’s creditsinclude the school production Inthe Nyitting Time (Yirra YaakinNoongar Theatre Company) and asan Assistant Director Romeo andJuliet (Sydney Theatre Company– Education) and Female of theSpecies (Black Swan TheatreCompany).JACOB NASHSet DesignerJacob graduated from the NIDADesign Course in 2005. Yibiyungis his first main stage productionfor Company B. For B Sharp andmurri fulla films he designed RubenGuthrie and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’Train. His other theatre creditsinclude Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare);Romeo and Juliet (Sydney TheatreCompany – Education); Lessonsin Flight (Darlinghurst TheatreCompany); My Girragundji (CanuteProductions); Njunjul the Sun(Kooemba Jdarra IndigenousPerforming Arts). He also worked inthe costume department inpre-production on Baz Luhrmann’slatest film Australia and in the artdepartment on The Circuit, a sixpart television series which airedon SBS. In addition, Jacob haswritten and directed Blood Lines,a five-minute short film whichis part of a thirteen part seriescalled A Bit of Black Business, anAustralian Film Commission andSBS Independent initiative. Jacobwas also the Assistant Directoron the International ShakespeareLaboratory with The AlmeidaTheatre Company’s Artistic DirectorMichael Attenborough and CecilyBerry, an initiative coordinated bythe Sydney Theatre Company.DAVID PAGEUncle/TrackerIn the 1980s David studied at CASM,the Centre for Aboriginal Studies inMusic at Adelaide University. Sincegraduating he has both performedand composed for theatre, danceand film. As a performer his mostrecent Company B credit was hisone-man show Page 8, whichtoured nationally and internationally.Among his other acting credits areMurras (Adelaide Fringe Festival);Big Sister (Riverside Theatre); TheSunshine Club, Fountains Beyond(Queensland Theatre Company) andThe Cherry Pickers (Sydney TheatreCompany). For film he has performed

in Green Bush, To Hell and Back, TwoBob Mermaid, Oscar and Lucinda.He has composed extensively forBangarra Dance Theatre since 1991.He also composed for various shortfilms funded by the Australian FilmCommission and composed for boththe Sydney 2000 Olympic GamesOpening Ceremony and the 2006Melbourne Commonwealth GamesOpening Ceremony. David wasnominated for an AFI Award and haswon four Deadly Sound Awards, aSidney Myer Foundation IndigenousArtist Award and a Green RoomAward for Best New AustralianPlay for Page 8 (co-written withLouis Nowra).NIKLAS PAJANTILighting DesignerNiklas works as a lighting designerfor contemporary dance, theatreand events. He is a graduate of theVictorian College of the Arts andholds postgraduate qualificationsin Illuminating Engineering fromThe Royal Melbourne Institute ofTechnology. For Company B he hasdesigned for The Pillowman andWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.Other lighting designs includeFor Samuel Beckett (Endgame),Not What I am – Othello Retold,The Winter’s Tale, King John, TheCrucible, Yet each man kills thething he loves, Because of theIncreasing Disorder (The EleventhHour); When the Rain Stops Falling(Brink Productions); Not LikeBeckett (Malthouse Melbourne);Holiday (Ranters Theatre);Osama the Hero (The Rabble); IWant to Dance Better at Parties,Singularity, Tense Dave, Three’sa Crowd (Chunky Move); FrankWoodley Possessed, Spicks andSpecktacular, Lano and Woodley-Goodbye (Token Events); Murundak(Black Arm Band/MelbourneInternational Arts Festival) andShaun Parker-This Show Is AboutPeople (Shaun Parker/MargueritePepper/Melbourne InternationalArts Festival). Niklas also workedas an Assistant Lighting Designeron Teorema, The Hive, Crossing Live(Chamber Made) and Scenes of theBeginning from the End and K (NotYet It’s Difficult). He was awardedthe Victorian Green Room Awardfor Lighting Design for Dance forUnder the Weather and has had sixnominations for lighting design fromthe association. Currently Niklasis Principal Lighting Designer forTrafficlight.MELODIEREYNOLDSDjindiMelodie is a Wongi woman fromWestern Australia. She made heracting debut in the Company Bproduction of No Sugar at age of16. She has since graduated fromthe Western Australian Academyof Performing Arts in 1996. Herother theatre credits include WildCat Falling, Booyi Koora Koora,Honey Spot, King For This Place, AMidsummer Night’s Dream, ActorsAt Work (Bell Shakespeare); HolyDay, Crow Fire, Stolen, ShrunkenIris, Master Builder, Quiltingthe Armour, Yandy (Black SwanTheatre Company); The Dirty Mile,Chopped Liver (Ilbijerri Aboriginaland Torres Strait Islander TheatreCooperative) and Headhunter(Ilbijerri/Polyglot Puppet Theatre).She has also performed in severalradio plays and in the televisionseries Natural Justice.

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