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Stolen

Stolen

By Jane Harrison
ISBN
9780868197975
Publisher
Currency Press
Publication Date
7 December 2006
Edition
Fourth
Format
Paperback
Availability
Available
Categories
Plays
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Description

Stolen tells of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from society from their earliest years, not all of them successfully manage their lives when released into the outside world.

The pain, poignancy and sheer desperation of their lives is seen through the children's own eyes as they struggle to make sense of a world where they have been told to forget their families, their homes and their language. This tender and moving story, awash with childlike humour, brings the tragic history of the Stolen Generations to the Australian stage.

Features an introduction by Wesley Enoch on his experience of directing the first production of Stolen.

Biography
Jane Harrison
Jane Harrison

JANE HARRISON is descended from the Muruwari people of NSW. Her plays include Stolen, Rainbow’s End and The Visitors, the latter winning the Sydney Critics Award for Best New Australian Work in 2021, and Best Production and Best Ensemble in 2024. The opera The Visitors premiered in 2023. Her novels include Becoming Kirrali Lewis and The Visitors. She received the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award in 2023 and was the Festival Director of Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival (2016 - 2024).

Jane Harrison's Other Books (4)
Book Data
Cast Info 3F, 2M
Genres Australian History, Drama
Themes Political/Social themes, Significant female roles, First Nations
Audiences Adult, Secondary: Years 7-9
Extent 64
Edition Fourth
Size 210 x 137
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