Stolen presented by Aboriginal Performance
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On behalf of WAAPA’s Aboriginal Performance collaboration with WAAPA’s Lighting Design and Stage management cohort we invite you to witness the showing of ‘Stolen’ . Written by Aboriginal Australian playwright, novelist, and festival director Jane Harrison and descended of the Muruwari people of NSW.Stolen tells of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children’s home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from society from their earliest years, not all of them successfully manage their lives when released into the outside world.
The pain, poignancy and sheer desperation of their lives is seen through the children’s own eyes as they struggle to make sense of a world where they have been told to forget their families, their homes, and their language.
This tender and moving story, awash with childlike humour, brings the tragic history of the Stolen Generations to the Australian stage.
Directed by Rachael McDonald and Performed by the Cert IV in Aboriginal Performance students .
Lighting Designed and Stage Managed by WAAPA’s Lighting and the Stage Management students.
Content warning: Force removal of Children, Abuse, Loss of Identity, Racism, Prejudice, Trauma, Exploitation.
Dates
Thursday 21 May 2026 (UTC+08)Location
City Campus - Level 3 and 4
500 Wellington St, Perth WA 6000
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Stolen presented by Aboriginal Performance
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