Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous Now in Bendigo

Name: Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous Now in Bendigo
Start: 2026-05-22T19:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-05-22T19:00:00+10:00
Location: The Old Church on the Hill

About

A humorous, moving and passionate storytelling and music show. In these perilous and chaotic times, some long-established dangerous ideas abound: such as 'survival of the fittest’, that we ‘humans should dominate nature’, and that ‘men are superior to women’. So, have we, the brilliant human race, blown it?

Trailer on Youtube: https://youtu.be/68-oChdkHGw?si=GW7q9bQIpQCSXyLk

Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous Now is the premiere collaboration of renowned storyteller/musician Jan 'Yarn' Wositzky and actor/musician Penny Glass, performers who bring a wealth of personal and professional experience to this dramatic, uplifting and comical piece of storytelling theatre.

Taking its cue from the Latin American concept of 'la digna rabia' - dignified anger - the show brings to life women who led Central American indigenous communities to defy mines and dams on their country (performed in Spanish and English); the wisdom of the bushman and yarn spinner, Bill Harney, who returned from WWI with a hatred of war; the 14th century tale of ‘What do women desire most, above all else’ - the answer may surprise! – and the unacknowledged history of the Aboriginal man on Australia’s two-dollar coin.

These stories are seamlessly linked with the performers’ recollections of growing up in migrant families, coming to terms with our indigenous-colonial history, and … a love story.

And throughout, the show is sprinkled with songs & music on 5-string banjo, harmonica, flute, quena, rhythm bones, and drums.

Travelling through tough times to a hopeful finale, "Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous Now" is the ancient art of storytelling for the contemporary stage.

The show has toured the eastern states of Australia since 2023. This year we are working with director Stefo Nantsou on a new, shiny, updated version, and we are very happy to be performing it for the first time in Bendigo.

Further information and bookings: Contact Jan
www.janwositzky.com.au | 0417 332 065 | jan@janwositzky.com.au