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EVENT TYPE /
Theatre
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PLAYING /
5 Jul – 3 Aug
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WHERE /
Beckett Theatre
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DURATION /
90 minutes
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AGES /
Recommended for audiences aged 15+
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WARNING /
Contains coarse language, adult themes, strobe lighting, dynamic sound and violent themes and imagery. Parental discretion advised.
To discuss potentially triggering content please contact Malthouse Theatre’s Box Office or speak with a member of staff.
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Season 2018
Blackie Blackie Brown:
The Traditional Owner of Death
5 JUL – 3 AUG 2018
Information
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EVENT TYPE /
Theatre
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PLAYING /
5 Jul – 3 Aug
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WHERE /
Beckett Theatre
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DURATION /
90 minutes
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AGES /
Recommended for audiences aged 15+
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WARNING /
Contains coarse language, adult themes, strobe lighting, dynamic sound and violent themes and imagery. Parental discretion advised.
To discuss potentially triggering content please contact Malthouse Theatre’s Box Office or speak with a member of staff.
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**SOLD OUT. To enquire about last-minute ticket cancellations, visit or call Box Office one hour prior to the performance on 03 9685 5111. Cancellations not guaranteed.**
On a dig in the Australian outback, archaeologist Dr. Jacqueline Black unearths a mystical skull from a hidden mass grave. It talismanically transforms her into arse-kicking indigenous superhero Blackie Blackie Brown.
Her mission: to track down every last descendant of the men who killed her ancestors and have her revenge. It ain’t about forgiveness. It ain’t about reconciliation. This is about Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death.
The unstoppable Nakkiah Lui (Blaque Showgirls, ABC’s Black Comedy) and Declan Greene (Calpurnia Descending) team up with Barkindji, Birri-Gubba illustrator Emily Johnson and digital animation studio Oh Yeah Wow. The result is a hilarious live-action bad-arse blaxploitation superhero comic book that will have you baying for blood.
★★★★★ fast-paced adventure that brings the house down
★★★★ ½ Lui's ferocious new comedy will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
★★★★ ½ Deadly, brutally funny
★★★★ vital and entertaining
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / Phoebe Powell
BY / Nakkiah Lui
DIRECTION / Declan Greene
CAST / Ash Flanders, Dalara Williams
DESIGN / Elizabeth Gadsby
ANIMATION & VIDEO / Mike Greaney for Oh Yeah Wow
LIGHTING & PROJECTION DESIGN / Verity Hampson
COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN / Steve Toulmin
FOLEY ARTIST & ASSISTANT SOUND DESIGN / Nate Edmondson
CONCEPT ARTIST / Emily Johnson
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
PREVIEW
8pm, Thursday 5 July
OPENING NIGHT
8pm, Friday 6 July
TIME TO TALK
7pm, Tuesday 10 July
Supported by our Major Partner Monash University.
FACILITATED BY / Associate Professor Maryrose Casey, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre
Associate Professor Maryrose Casey has published widely on Indigenous Australian theatre and performance. Her research focuses on the ways in which racism is embedded in the responses to the embodied presence of Indigenous Australians both in the moment of performance and in the documentation of those performances from colonisation to the present.
FEATURING / Declan Greene, Ash Flanders, Dalara Williams, Jason Tamiru