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Waltzing the Wilarra

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Charlie, Elsa and Fay take you on a musical journey back to 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, White and Black manage to form their own club. For a night they can forget their worries and experience rare happy times singing, dancing, listening to music, and with a little luck... romance.

Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, our three characters meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomping ground. As the trio reflects upon loves lost and found, old arguments and alliances re-surface. Dark secrets and ghosts that have lingered for more than half a century are revealed, and we discover that reconciliation is more than saying sorry.

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RACE TO THE TOP

FIONA SCOTT-NORMAN, THE AUSTRALIAN JANUARY 2011

"Enoch takes over full-time at QTC this year, succeeding Michael Gow, but one of his last projects as a freelance director is Waltzing the Wilarra (wilarra means full moon), a musical written by David Milroy for the Perth-based indigenous Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company."

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The preparation of this document was commissioned by Drama Australia to foster access and participation in learning, taking in the broader context of Indigenous educational perspectives and redefining their relevance in the study of Contemporary Indigenou

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THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

"A stellar cast explodes under the wilarra"

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