Image: Yirra Yaakin celebrates 21 years as WA’s leading Aboriginal performing arts company with the exhibition Ialaru: A Celebration at the Western Australian Museum, Perth.
The publication last week of Julian Meyrick’s the Retreat of National Drama, has once more put the idea of a national Australian theatre company on centre stage. Meyrick’s vision is prompted by his analysis of repertoire which shows that our main stage companies still shy away from new Australian work and rarely revive the work of Australian playwrights