5.07.2017

Seven Stages of Grieving


YEARS 11 AND 12 THEATRE EXCURSION



Every so often, a play production comes along that can change the minds and hearts of all those who view it! “7 Stages of Grieving” by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, acted at QUT Gardens Point Theatre and performed by Chenoa Deemal, is one such play. The production was attended on the evening of May 6th by the Years 11 and 12 Drama students, together with Ms Mary Fletcher, Mrs Karyn Chapman and Mrs Kaye Jeffery.

The “7 Stages of Grieving” is a wise and powerful play about the grief of Aboriginal people and the hope of reconciliation. It is a one-woman/everywoman show, where the Aboriginal woman character spins powerful stories of different people from different mobs. Funny, devastatingly sad, politically relevant and culturally profound, it traverses the phases of Aboriginal history through tales of true and personal stories that need to keep being told. Theatrical expression is given to stories of discrimination, injustice, oppression, loss, the stolen generation, and loss of culture and land/home. The play ‘opens a dialogue about the issues that separate and unite Indigenous and non-Indigenous people’.

The Drama girls thoroughly enjoyed and were moved to see this poignant production, and it evoked much rich intellectual discussion in class!
Year 12

Year 11

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