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
