Swine River

By: David Milroy
Director: Ruby Lorraine
Set, Props & Costume Designer: Imogen Hale
Lighting Designer: Thomas Hamilton
Sound Designer: Guinevere Fisher

Throw sand into the waterhole and let big fella, asleep at the bottom, know we are here.

As the sand slowly drifts into the darkness, no longer will we lie in the shadows hidden from this world.

We have watched over this country for thousands of years, ‘till the thunder of bulldozers woke us from our sleep.

Your blankets of legislation fall on the caretakers of this country as you amputate, transplant and cauterize.

The wounds remain open as the iron ore slithers like a serpent through the spinifex, and the money flows like morphine through a drip.

In your stupor you feel no guilt, no pain, no sorrow. That burden is left for us, and the country, to bear.

Content advice: Swine River contains explicit language, themes of death, gun violence, and alcohol abuse. Use of fog and haze.