WALTZING THE WILARRA

Opening in February 2011

A dramatic, toe-tapping musical comedy with satirical bite!

Join Charlie, Elsa and Fay, as they take you on a musical journey back to 1940’s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, White and Black manage to form their own club. For a night they can forget their worries and experience rare happy times singing, dancing, listening to music, and with a little luck.....romance! Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, our three characters meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomping ground. As the trio reflects upon loves lost and found, old arguments and alliances re-surface. Dark secrets and ghosts that have lingered for more than half a century are revealed, and we discover that reconciliation is more than saying sorry. Finding another level of forgiveness is at the heart and soul of WALTZING THE WILARRA.*

Written by multi-award winning playwright, David Milroy (WINDMILL BABY), and directed by Australia’s leading Indigenous theatre director Wesley Enoch (THE SAPPHIRES); WALTZING THE WILARRA is an original music theatre work featuring an all-star Indigenous cast including Ernie Dingo, Trevor Jamieson, Kelton Pell and Ursula Yovich. They are joined on stage by some of WA’s best local musicians.

*Wilarra means Full Moon.

WRITER David Milroy
DIRECTOR Wesley Enoch
MUSICAL DIRECTOR Wayne Freer
SET DESIGN Jacob Nash
COSTUME DESIGN Isaac Lummis
LIGHTING DESIGN Trent Suidgeest
SOUND DESIGN Kingsley Reeve
CHOREOGRAPHER Claudia Alessi
ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER Simon Stewart
DRAMATURG Sally Richardson

CAST INCLUDES Ernie Dingo, Trevor Jamieson, Kelton Pell and Ursula Yovich.

A Perth International Arts Festival Event

Click here to see the Promo video.

*Wilarra means Full Moon