THE RIGHT TO A RITE OF PASSAGE.
Young men from different corners of Queensland blow into the big smoke burning with unbridled energy, desire and confusion. Each of them filled with the need to escape, to make something of their lives, to defy the hand that life has dealt them. An individual ignition has driven them all to Brisbane but something else — something ancestral — will bring them together.
Caught between adolescence and adulthood, these young fellas will converge and wrestle with themselves, each other, their ghosts and a deep-etched sense of duty to Country. Together they’ll lay themselves bare and bond as brothers over what it means to be a young Aboriginal man in 2024.
This high energy work, presented with BlakDance as part of Brisbane Festival, is all about giving today’s young Murri men a voice, one that challenges the narrative around public perceptions of Aboriginal masculinity.
Using dance, music and poetry, this form-defying work features Djabuganjdji man Lenny Donahue and Girramay and Kalkadoon man Tibian Wyles in a tour-de-force performance that is as physical as it is heartfelt.
GETTING TO THE THEATRE
BY BUS The 444 bus route is a new service offered by Translink, that delivers you meters from our front door.
BY CAR There is paid car parking available at both the Bille Brown Theatre and surrounding streets.
Writers: Lenny Donahue and Tibian Wyles
Director: Isaac Drandic
DEAR BROTHER is at Brisbane's Bille Brown Theatre.
DEAR BROTHER tickets start at $70.
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