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YIRRA YAAKIN, 2008

Yirra Yaakin and Perth City Council present I DON’T WANNA PLAY HOUSE as part of the City of Perth 2008 Honouring Theatre Festival from July 1 - 6.

ATSI GUIDELINES FOR DRAMA/THEATRE EDUCATION

DRAMA AUSTRALIA

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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Production information for Yirra Yaakin's 2010 touring season of 'I Don't Wanna Play House'

I DON'T WANNA PLAY HOUSE

ALLISON JESS, ABC GOULBURN MURRAY

"I lived it, I breathed it, survived it and as an artist I wanted to share that with an audience." Allison Jess talks with Tammy Anderson about her quest to raise awareness of domestic and child abuse.

PERFORMING AUSTRALIA'S BLACK AND WHITE HISTORY

ALISON LYSSA, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, 2006

ACADEMIC PAPER: This thesis compares testimony to Australia's black/white relations in two plays by white writers, Andrew Bovell's 'Holy Day' (2001) and Katherne Thomson's 'Wonderlands' (2003), and two black writers, Tammy Anderson's 'I Don't Wanna Play House' (2001) and Richard J. Frankland's 'Conversations With the Dead' (2002)

THE MOTHER OF ALL ONE-WOMAN SHOWS

MARTIN FLANAGAN, THE AGE, NOVEMBER 2004

"I have just seen Tammy Anderson's one-woman show, I Don't Wanna Play House, and watched as she made fear, hate, love and laughter all appear."

BLACK AND WHITE IN FULL COLOUR

MARY-ANN ROBINSON, REALTIME #48, APRIL-MAY 2002

"Blak Inside, a series of Indigenous plays from Victoria, performed at Melbourne’s Playbox to sellout crowds. It’s a vote of confidence in the medium that these writers chose to craft their stories for theatre. I saw 3 of the 5 productions..."