Indigenous Playwright Conference

It's been more than two decades since Sydney last hosted a festival for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander playwrights. But now the playwrights are back in the harbour city for a new festival, called Yellamundie, at Sydney's art centre, Carriageworks. It's an opportunity for indigenous writers, actors and directors to collaborate on material, with the ambitious aim of producing six new works, and culminating in a series of free play readings. The scripts being workshopped were chosen from a national call-out last year and tell stories of devastation caused by mining industries, the challenges of relationships between older and young Aboriginal Australians, and suicide and tribal traditions, all set within within contemporary urban and rural Australian landscapes.