Ilbijerri Theatre Company
Ilbijerri Theatre Company (Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative) is an Australian theatre company based in Melbourne that creates theatre creatively controlled by Indigenous artists.
Ilbijerri was founded in 1990 by a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists galvanised to tell Indigenous stories from an Indigenous perspective.[1]
Its notable productions include:
- Stolen by Jane Harrison, commissioned in 1992 and first performed in a 1998 co-production with Playbox Theatre
- Jack Charles v The Crown, about the life of Jack Charles which premiered in 2012 and was nominated for Helpmann Awards for Best Direction of a Play and Best Male Actor in a Play
- Beautiful One Day, a theatrical documentary about events on Palm Island (co-produced with Belvoir and version 1.0), which also played at London's Southbank Centre as part of the 2015 Origins Festival of First Nations[2]
- Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country, a verbatim theatre work about Coranderrk.
Ilbijerri has given a Tanderrum performance to open recent Melbourne Festivals.[3] It also creates and tours works for educational and community audiences.
References
- ^ "Ilbijerri Theatre Company: A history – Maggie Journal". www.maggiejournal.com. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ Ross, Annabel. "Beautiful One Day: Ilbijerri Theatre takes Palm Island story to London". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "Melbourne festival a celebration of song, film and art - National Indigenous Times". nit.com.au. Retrieved 2017-02-11.