Which Way Home
MALENY COMMUNITY CENTRE
SATURDAY 18 August at 7.15pm
“Which Way Home feels as safe and generous as a tight hug from a loved one.” Time Out, Sydney.
“A warmly affirming window on indigenous family life”. Sydney Morning Herald
LBIJERRI Theatre Company presents WHICH WAY HOME - the heartwarming dramedy of an Aboriginal girl, her much loved ageing dad and their road trip to his birthplace. It’s his return home to country, where the sky is higher and the world goes on forever.
Tash and her dad journey from Ipswich (Yuggerah Country) to Goodooga (Muriwarri Country) learning new things about each other along the way. They experience moments of hilarity and annoyance as the trivial become exaggerated within the four doors of a car.
WHICH WAY HOME draws on writer Katie Beckett’s personal memories of growing up with her single Aboriginal father. Her mother died when she just 5 years old, leaving her dad to raise 3 children.
“The reason I wrote Which Way Home was because I love my dad. That’s it. It’s truly that simple. It wasn’t an easy time but he did it. He is a loving, wonderful, strong man. I have had a lot of wonderfully strong and emotionally in tune, generous men around me growing up and I was wondering why don’t I see the Aboriginal men that I grew up with represented on stage, on TV, on film?” said Katie Beckett, who is a previous recipient of The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright's Award.
Directed by Rachael Maza, actor and writer Katie Beckett plays Tash and her Dad is played by Kamahi King.
MALENY COMMUNITY CENTRE
SATURDAY 18 August at 7.15pm
“Which Way Home feels as safe and generous as a tight hug from a loved one.” Time Out, Sydney.
“A warmly affirming window on indigenous family life”. Sydney Morning Herald
LBIJERRI Theatre Company presents WHICH WAY HOME - the heartwarming dramedy of an Aboriginal girl, her much loved ageing dad and their road trip to his birthplace. It’s his return home to country, where the sky is higher and the world goes on forever.
Tash and her dad journey from Ipswich (Yuggerah Country) to Goodooga (Muriwarri Country) learning new things about each other along the way. They experience moments of hilarity and annoyance as the trivial become exaggerated within the four doors of a car.
WHICH WAY HOME draws on writer Katie Beckett’s personal memories of growing up with her single Aboriginal father. Her mother died when she just 5 years old, leaving her dad to raise 3 children.
“The reason I wrote Which Way Home was because I love my dad. That’s it. It’s truly that simple. It wasn’t an easy time but he did it. He is a loving, wonderful, strong man. I have had a lot of wonderfully strong and emotionally in tune, generous men around me growing up and I was wondering why don’t I see the Aboriginal men that I grew up with represented on stage, on TV, on film?” said Katie Beckett, who is a previous recipient of The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright's Award.
Directed by Rachael Maza, actor and writer Katie Beckett plays Tash and her Dad is played by Kamahi King.
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