•
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. • 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, co-written by
John Harvey and
Tainui Tukiwaho, is a story about a cross-cultural relationship between a
Māori woman and an Aboriginal man. It 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 with Tainui Tukiwaho. It then toured to
Perth,
Melbourne, and then
Wellington and
Auckland in New Zealand in February and March of that year., •
Big Name, No Blanket, a musical based on the story of the
Warumpi Band, premiered in January 2024 at the
Sydney Festival. It was written by
Andrea James with
Sammy Butcher and his daughter
Anyupa Butcher, and co-directed by
Rachael Maza and Anyupa Butcher.
Baykali Ganambarr plays Sammy Butcher. In October 2024 a slightly scaled-down version of the show was undertaking a tour of 16 prisons, supported by the
Balnaves Foundation. ==See also==