JAM! Reading Group

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1. September 30 - Women & Children, Tony Birch (Avail Aug 26) ticket

   Wed, 30 Sep, 6:30pm - 7:45pm AEST

   Set in a 1960s working-class Melbourne suburb, Tony Birch’s Women & Children follows 11-year-old Joe Cluny as he navigates a world of strict Catholic school discipline, family secrets, and the profound love between his mother, Marion, and sister, Ruby. The narrative centers on the arrival of his aunt, Oona, who is escaping a violent relationship, forcing the family to confront domestic abuse, misogyny, and the complicity of silence within their community

   Set in a 1960s working-class Melbourne suburb, Tony Birch’s Women & Children follows 11-year-old Joe Cluny as he navigates a world of strict Catholic school discipline, family secrets, and the profound love between his mother, Marion, and sister, Ruby. The narrative centers on the arrival of his aunt, Oona, who is escaping a violent relationship, forcing the family to confront domestic abuse, misogyny, and the complicity of silence within their community

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2. October 28 - And Then She Fell, Alicia Elliott (Avail Sept 30) ticket

   Wed, 28 Oct, 6:30pm - 7:45pm AEDT

   Isolated from her community and feeling like an outsider, Alice is heartbroken since her mother's death and struggling to connect with Dawn. Alice falls down the rabbit hole, struggling with her inner demons, trying to be a good mother, supportive wife, and write a modern retelling of The Haudenosaunee Creation Story. Henry Lawson’s story of the Drover’s Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent—it’s our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah’s new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover’s Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard in Australia’s high country, but now it’s a man. He’s bleeding, he’s got secrets, and he’s black. She knows there’s a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something’s holding the Drover’s Wife back from turning this fella in … A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover’s Wife is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation’s infancy into our complicated present.

   Isolated from her community and feeling like an outsider, Alice is heartbroken since her mother's death and struggling to connect with Dawn. Alice falls down the rabbit hole, struggling with her inner demons, trying to be a good mother, supportive wife, and write a modern retelling of The Haudenosaunee Creation Story. Henry Lawson’s story of the Drover’s Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent—it’s our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah’s new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover’s Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard in Australia’s high country, but now it’s a man. He’s bleeding, he’s got secrets, and he’s black. She knows there’s a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something’s holding the Drover’s Wife back from turning this fella in … A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover’s Wife is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation’s infancy into our complicated present.

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3. November 25 - Desert Tracks, Linda and Marly Wells (Avail Oct 28) ticket

   Wed, 25 Nov, 6:30pm - 7:45pm AEDT

   Desert Tracks is a time travelling novel about young people in central Australia, the historical legacy of racist policies and the relationship between history and the present.

   Desert Tracks is a time travelling novel about young people in central Australia, the historical legacy of racist policies and the relationship between history and the present.

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