Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui

Ages: 7+
Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui
Company:
Darwin Festival
Show Type:
Schools and Families
Genre:
Theatre
Date / Time Venue / Cost
Schools
Monday Mar 28:
10:15AM - 11:45AM 		Tandanya
Full: $15.00
Equity: $11.00
Monday Mar 28:
1:15PM - 2:45PM 		Tandanya
Full: $15.00
Equity: $11.00
Tuesday Mar 29:
10:15AM - 11:45AM 		Tandanya
Full: $15.00
Equity: $11.00
Tuesday Mar 29:
1:15PM - 2:45PM 		Tandanya
Full: $15.00
Equity: $11.00
Wednesday Mar 30:
10:15AM - 11:45AM 		Tandanya
Full: $15.00
Equity: $11.00
Wednesday Mar 30:
1:15PM - 2:45PM 		Tandanya
Full: $15.00
Equity: $11.00
Families
Sunday Mar 27:
11:00AM - 12:30PM 		Tandanya
Per Person: $20.00
Group: $15.00
Sunday Mar 27:
2:00PM - 3:30PM 		Tandanya
Per Person: $20.00
Group: $15.00
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Written by Jason De Santis

A new Aboriginal play with songs and puppetry. Using the language and rhyme of the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin, Wulamanayuwi tells the story of a young girl and her experiences with the spirit-beings of a mystical, dreamtime land.

In the tradition of the Grimms Brothers tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Wulamanayuwi, daughter of the Rainbow Serpent totem, runs away from her evil stepmother into a land of water spirits, dingoes, wallabies and frogs. Guided by a white cockatoo, Wulamanayuwi meets the seven Pamanui (spirit-beings) who, in a quest to seek revenge and justice, will lead her back home via a path of myth and magic, disaster and adventure.

Told through story and song and narrated by Jarparra, the Moon Man, this new play mixes the enchanting tradition of European fairytales with the Palaneri or Dreaming characters and stories of the Tiwi Islands.

Commissioned and produced by Darwin Festival.  


                  

Wulamanayuwi has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative managed by the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Darwin Festival, Ten Days on the Island (TAS) and COME OUT Festival. Supported by the Sidney Myer Fund, PlayWriting Australia and ArtsNT.