Nyuntu Ngali (You We Two)
A production by Windmill and Big hART in association with Adelaide Festival Centre's Australian Stories Program
Evanya pula Roamnga mukuringkula altingu palu palumpa pulampa tjukaruru wiya.
Palumpa pulampa witu-witu ngaranyi munu pula ngulu wirtja-pakara anu. from Nyuntu Ngali
It is the 22nd century in central Australia and humanity has farewelled the days of cars, ipods and mobile telephones. The industrial and technological culture that thrived for generations has ravaged our planet. Welcome to our post climate-change future, where our very survival depends on our ability to recover the traditional hunter-gatherer skills that we have lost. It’s time to get back to basics.
Despite the harsh environment of this post apocalyptic world, a beautiful and fragile love blossoms between Eva and Roam. Each has found a soul mate in the other but their joy will be short lived. Their wrong-skin marriage has placed them in terrible danger and they must run to escape the terrifying and unseen enemy that now threatens them.
This moving and powerful story of survival in both English and Pitjanjatjara is interspersed with sand storytelling, choreography, video art, shadow play, weaving and a highly atmospheric musical score.
Nyuntu Ngali is a collaboration between Windmill and the renowned Big hART, which also presented Ngapartji Ngapartji – performed at Belvoir Street in 2007.
About Windmill
Windmill produces and presents an annual season of bold, live theatre for children, teens and family audiences. Windmill’s seasons bring stories that beg attention and theatre that surprises, provokes and entertains. With a philosophy that creative expression is fundamental to humanity and vital for navigating the contemporary world, their mission is to make theatre a dynamic meeting space between the imagination of the artists and the audience. Windmill became an Associate Company of Sydney Theatre Company in 2009.
WHARF 2
Cost $21/student
Duration UPDATED 65 minutes, no interval
Suits Yrs 7-12
Resources Comprehensive student and teacher resources provided
Why book? A wonderful and timely production dealing with issues
of climate change, love and culture. A great example of
Indigenous Performance and Contemporary Australian
Theatre Practice.
