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Jerilderie
Productions aims to bring to life Australian National Treasures,
beginning with 'The Jerilderie Letter'
by
Ned Kelly; the middle part of a trilogy entitled
'Cook, Kelly and Mabo'. This trilogy will feature the
Cook Journals, the Jerilderie Letter and the Mabo Judgement.
The Jerilderie Letter was written approximately a year before
he was hung on 11 Nov.1880. This letter has been described as Ned
Kelly’s ‘manifesto’. Passionately articulating his pleas of innocence
and his desire for justice for his family and other poor Irish Catholics,
protesting their treatment by the police, banks and English settlers.
In 2007 UNICEF, the United Nations cultural foundation, added The
Story of the Kelly Gang,the first feature film made in Melbourne
in 1906 to its list of significant global documents; joining only
two other artefacts from Australia - the Journals of Captain Cook
and the Mabo Judgement. It can be said that if you know about Cook,
Kelly and Mabo, you will have the framework to understand main cultural
principles from Australia and Australia's place in the world.
Devised and performed by Peter Finlay, a Melbourne theatre veteran,
founding member of TheatreWorks
and author.
Peter also has film and TV credits including 'Dying Breed' and 'City
Homicide'. He has been nominated for two Green Room Awards in the
category 'Best Actor in a Fringe Production', and is best known
as the archetypal Aussie gunner
'Bluey' in the Australian mini-series, 'ANZACS'.
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La Mama
presents:
For two weeks
only at La Mama Theatre, Carlton Sept 9 - 20
Adapted & Performed by award-winning actor Peter Finlay
(Teatro Del Mundo, A few steps, not here not there, Portrait of [Dora],
Projections, The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly, Oedipus: A Poetic Requiem,
… waiting for Godot)
Dramatised & Directed by award-winning theatre-maker Laurence Strangio
(alias Grace, Portrait of [Dora], Paradise, Krapp's Last Tape, … waiting
for Godot, Oh the Humanity (and other exclamations).
In consultation with award-winning Moving Image designer Ivanka Sokol
(Damask Drum, Oedipus: A Poetic Requiem) "All they seemed to want was
for us to be gone."
When captain of The Endeavour James Cook arrived in Australia in April
1770, he tried "to form some Connections" with the inhabitants. He fired
three shots at them while in Botany Bay and another while at Endeavour
River before things were "reconciled" Scenes from Captain Cook's Journal
during his first voyage round the world.
A theatrical journey through the interior of the Yorkshireman famed for
'discovering' Australia. An explorer, navigator, cartographer and astronomer,
Cook maps the complex narrative of first contact with the country's indigenous
inhabitants
Australian Global Documents Project 2: Jerilderie Productions
Project 1: The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly
Project 2: COOK: an exploration
Project 3: The Mabo Judgement
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