Jane Harrison (playwright)

Jane Harrison ( b. 1960 ) writes plays and is an Aboriginal people from the Muruwari from New South Wales in Australia in Bourke. It has become especially through their play Stolen Generation known. My main focus lies in the themes and fates of the Aborigines.

Work

Jane Harrison has been working since 1992 in Ilbijerri Theatre Company. There they wrote the piece stoles, which was premiered in Melbourne in 1998 for the first time in 1998. The play Stolen Generations, is concerned with the fate of five Aboriginekindern that were taken away from their mothers. In addition to Australia and Tasmania Stolen was shown in the UK, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and Canada.

Another of her plays is on a Park Bench, where meet the generation snuffed Aborigines and those of the Holocaust victims.

Your piece of Rainbow's End (also called Rumba Lara ), which was premiered in Melbourne in 2005, shows the history of Aboriginefrauen from three generations who are struggling in a small town against racism and for their livelihood in the 1950s.

Your last listed song is called Blakvelvet that of the disappearance of two girls, one is about the Aboriginestamm the Koori and another girl that are sought by a detective.

Currently (2009) Harrison prepares an opera for a new performance. She has with her ​​pieces won several awards, such as the Indigenous Award.