Connecting with Country through theatre

Mitch King's new work is about storytelling on Country, with and for the community, and about the Yaegl people's connection with Biirrinba, the Clarence River.

Having worked for most of his adult life as a youth worker, Yaegl Bundjalung man Mitch King is especially keen for young First Nations people to come and see his new theatre production, Flow.

‘Particularly young Indigenous men and women, they go through today’s world understanding where they fit and where they sit, and the connections we have with culture and community, but also the disconnect we have at times … so there’s that sense of representation and reconnection back to culture within the work. It’s a storytelling of losing identity and then coming back, and a lot of people can understand that,’ he explained.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts