Marrugeku’s Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] comes to Perth One week only
Jurrungu Ngan-ga confronts Australia’s shameful fixation with incarceration by connecting outrageous levels of Indigenous imprisonment to the indefinite detaining of asylum seekers. Set within ‘the prison of the mind of Australia’ the exceptionally talented performers appear as figments of the Australian psyche.
Individually and collectively they draw on cultural and community experience (Indigenous, people seeking asylum, transgender and settler) to move deftly between horror, truth telling, and bodily resistance.
After a successful world tour, across Venice, Hamburg, Berlin, and back home in Adelaide, Sydney, the Kimberley and Melbourne, Jurrungu Ngan-ga’s visual feast for the senses sweeps you away 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.
Season Details
Venue: Heath Ledger Theatre
Date: 15 Sep -23 Sep 2023
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Photo Credit: Prudence Upto
