This play takes a hard look at those meeting points and honestly confronts the issue of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people inhabiting one land. Five stories have been seamlessly woven together to explore the fiery issues of race, class, sexuality, migration, reconciliation, unemployment, poverty and the environment. Bitterly divided, Australia lurches towards the election of December 13. The ALP will be decimated.
Time moves on.
So do they. But come 2002, as the daughter of one of them lies dying, the five find themselves together again. Sung by Canto Coro, the show gives voice to the real-life experiences of many of the choristers. A clan of storytellers and musicians, directly descendent from the Yorta Yorta nation, unite on stage to celebrate their survival as an Aboriginal nation with an evolving, unique and alive culture. It is that of a child born into the 1975 conflict in Saigon, orphaned, then evacuated through World Vision to a family in rural Australia.