TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrison,Jane
AU  - Enoch,Wesley
TI  - The visitors
T2  - Currency plays
SN  - 9781760626761 (paperback)
U1  - 822.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Strawberry Hills,  NSW
PB  - Currency Press
KW  - Attitudes - Indigenous perspectives
KW  - aiatsiss
KW  - Race relations - Representation - Literature
KW  - History - Cultural
KW  - Literature and stories - Plays
KW  - Settlement and contacts - First Fleet, 1788
KW  - Literature and stories - Authors - Drama
KW  - Drama
KW  - Australian drama
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - 18th century
KW  - First Fleet, 1787-1788
KW  - Warrane / Sydney Cove (NSW SI56-05)
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 1788-1851
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Indigenous collection
N1  - The Visitors was first produced by Sydney Festival, Moogahlin Performing Arts and Carriageworks, on 22 January 2020; Includes bibliographical references (page 61)
N2  - On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stand looking out to sea. Moored off shore is a huge nowee (boat) . then there are two, then more. Who are these visitors Where are they from What do they want Should they be turned away -'by force -'or welcomed to country. In The Visitors, Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison (Stolen, Rainbow's End) reimagines the arrival of the First Fleet from a First Nations' perspective. These senior men, carrying the weight of cultural responsibility in their very human hearts, must decide what action they'll take toward these unwanted arrivals. A decision, under pressure, that will have repercussions -'unforeseeably and forever. Told with wit, charm, and a fierce intelligence, Harrison's story upends the dominant point of view of this pivotal event. Annotated and with an introduction by Wesley Enoch. 'I do not doubt that The Visitors will take its place alongside Stolen as a touchstone of Australian theatre, and as an essential part of the continuing struggle to make sense of colonisation and multigenerational trauma
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