No Sugar
No Sugar
Author: Jack Davis
First Performance: 1985, Perth, Australia
Published: 1986
Genre: Drama in 4 acts; English and Nyoongarah (Aboriginal)
Setting: Northam, Perth, and Moore River Reserve, Western Australia, 1929–34
Cast: 12m, 8f
Everyone in Northam in Western Australia is feeling the effects of the Depression, including the cheery, rough Munday family, Aborigines confined to their reserve. Auber Octavius Neville, Chief Protector of Aborigines, is having difficulty finding a suitable location for a new reserve. Jimmy Munday and his brother-in-law Sam are found in possession of alcohol and are locked up. Three years later, Neville removes all the Aborigines from Northam to another reserve at Moore River, falsely claiming that they have skin disease. Moore River is run by a lecherous...
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