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Kill The Messenger
By Nakkiah Lui
Directed by Anthea Williams
Belvoir Upstairs
Nakkiah Lui is a Gamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander playwright who last year had a stunning impact with her play about the Mt Druitt riots This Heaven.
It was a wonderful in-your-face look at the difficult position that suburban Aboriginal people find themselves in. Her new play is a compelling story, again set in western Sydney, of five lives, including her own. It again raises the question of why we allow the bad treatment of our indigenous peoples to continue.
This short play...