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Shadows William Yang
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Monologue with slide projection
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William Yang |
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Musician and Composer
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Colin Offord |
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Production Manager
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Gordon Rymer |
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Story-teller and photographer William Yang presents a moving account of two communities haunted by the shadows of history: Aboriginal people in outback Enngonia, and German migrants to South Australia, interned during the World Wars. |
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Extraordinary stories come to life in Yang’s uniquely intimate monologues with slides – part social documentary, part personal observation. In Shadows, Yang combines his own original photography with precious found images stowed away by families for generations, to take us on a journey of dispossession and reconciliation.
Shadows marks a new road for William Yang – it’s his first work telling stories other than his own. His previous works (including Blood Links, Friends of Dorothy, The North, Sadness) explored his own family history, and those of the Chinese diaspora and the Sydney gay community.
Yang’s wryly sensitive perspective, his eye for detail, and his arresting images come together with Colin Offord’s “restless, driving score” (SMH), in an unforgettable theatrical experience – already acclaimed by critics and audiences at three major Australian Festivals, and across Europe and North America. |
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Commissioned by Sydney, Adelaide & Perth Festivals, 2002. Toured to Bergen ('02), Toronto, Montreal, Philadelphia, RomaEuropa Festival, London, Paris & Strasbourg ('03), Sydney ('04), Reunion Island ('05) & Under the Radar Festival, New York ('06), |
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This project is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding & advisory body. |
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"William Yang’s performances are among the enduring pleasures of Australian theatre… part of the appeal is Yang’s presence on the side of the stage – contemplative, charming, with an understated vocal style that eschews rhetoric." The Australian |
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"Shadows is the kind of art that will leave haunting and beautiful images in your mind for days. It is like a retrospective meditation on the theme of cultural reconciliation. Visual artistry mixed with verbal address is structurally striking. Yang is unassuming and unsentimental and also entirely compelling." The West Australian |
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"The threads of the past and present, political and personal, become entwined and the power of Yang’s accumulation of detail, his eye to the beauty and ugliness of man and nature give Shadows its depth of feeling." The Sydney Morning Herald |
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