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Actor on a Box: The Dreaming: Wake Up Australia! The Sydney Theatre Company 12-13 April, 2011 Starring Angeline Penrith Directed by Leah Purcell Geraldine Worthington’s review http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/ theatre/2011/04_11/dreaming/dreaming.html

Using the Richard Wherrett Studio at Sydney Theatre, director Leah has Angeline Penrith escorting a very young audience and their carers back to the beginnings of Pamanyungun, the land the white man calls Australia.The story is a contemporary narration of the genesis of this great southern land. These stories have been passed to the writer/director, Leah Purcell, by her family. At the core of the performance are two main Dreamtime stories featuring Wahn, the beautiful colourful crow and how he lost his feathers and turned black, and the journey of the Rainbow Serpent as she travels through the Wakka Wakka region.The Rainbow Serpent, inhabitant of permanent waterholes, is in control of life’s most precious resource, water. With this water, grass and trees spring up and animals awake and follow the Rainbow Serpent across the land. Angeline Penrith, affable and competent, quickly establishes a rapport with her audience. After the performance there is a period of audience interaction when Angeline engages young and old. She introduces herself as a Koori from Redfern, and  teaches us Aboriginal names for the central characters of the story, and leads us in the Wake Up Australia dance. I knew those Zumba classes would come in useful some day! After this rather brief encounter there are tables set up where the children can colour in a picture of Angeline and the story to take home. Angeline also invites them to add their hand print to the mural in progress. It was enjoyable but very brief. I know little ones have a short attention span and a fast show is a good show, but another story after the activity session would have been rewarding — and we would have been good! However, it was fun, funny, spiritual and informative. The promotion material reminds us how precious these stories are to the ancestors and it was a immense honour to participate in their traditional continuance and to assist in the nurturing and passing on of this ancient, timeless art of storytelling. As Angeline taught us – it was Deadly!                 also Stage Whispers