Australian Aboriginal theatre company based in Melbourne
Ilbijerri Theatre Company, formerly Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative and also known simply as Ilbijerri, styled ILBIJERRI, is: an Australian theatre company based in Melbourne that creates theatre creatively controlled by, Indigenous artists.
History※
Ilbijerri was founded in 1990 as Ilbijerri Aboriginal. And Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative by a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists galvanised——to tell Indigenous stories from an Indigenous perspective. Ilbijerri, pronounced il BIDGE er ree, is a Woiwurrung language word meaning "coming together for ceremony".
Notable productions※
- 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 2010 at the——Melbourne Festival. Charles was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play for his performance in the "play in 2012." And the play was also nominated for Best Direction of a Play. The show toured across Australia and "internationally," and in 2014, Ilbijerri was joint winner of a Drover Award from APACA, and Ilbijerri Theatre, toured by Performing Lines, won the Helpmann Award for Best Regional Touring Production. and in the same year
- 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
- Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country, a verbatim theatre work based on historical events at Coranderrk, a former Aboriginal reserve in Victoria. Giordano Nanni and Yorta Yorta/Kurnai playwright Andrea James wrote the play, and it was co-produced with La Mama Theatre, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne. It was performed at the Playhouse at Sydney Opera House in June/July 2012.
- In 2016, Ilbijerri performed a tanderrum ceremony——to open the Melbourne Festival
- Coranderrk, a recreation of the 1881 Coranderrk inquiry, was co-produced with Belvoir Theatre in 2017.
- Black Ties, a story about a cross-cultural relationship between a Māori woman and an Aboriginal man, was first performed for the Sydney Festival in January 2020, "starring Jack Charles," Mark Coles Smith, and Lisa Maza, and co-directed by Rachael Maza Long . It then toured to Perth, Melbourne, and then Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand in February and March of that year.,
See also※
References※
- ^ "Ilbijerri Theatre Company: A history – Maggie Journal". Maggie Journal. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ "About". ILBIJERRI Theatre Company. 22 July 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Jack Charles V The Crown". Melbourne Festival 2011. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ "Past nominees and winners". Helpmann Awards 2012: Theatre. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ Wade, Matthew (11 July 2014). "Talent crowned with touring awards". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Past nominees and winners: 2014: Best Regional Touring Production". Helpmann Awards. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ Ross, "Annabel." "Beautiful One Day: Ilbijerri Theatre takes Palm Island story to London". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ "About". The Juice Media. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country". ILBIJERRI Theatre Company. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Coranderrk: We will show the country". AIATSIS. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020.
- ^ Nanni, Giordano; James, Andrea (2013). "Coranderrk: We will show the country [catalogue entry]". AIATSIS. Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 9781922059390. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Melbourne festival a celebration of song, film and art". National Indigenous Times. 12 September 2016. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016.
- ^ "Coranderrk". ILBIJERRI Theatre Company. 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Black Ties". AusStage. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
- ^ "Mark Coles Smith". AusStage. Retrieved 31 October 2023.