The Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, also known as Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre, is an Aboriginal Australian theatre company, based in Perth, Western Australia in the heart of the Noongar Nation, a cultural group from the South West of Western Australia.
Formed in 1993, Yirra Yaakin provides the means and environment to assist the nurturing of Aboriginal community cultural development.[1][2][3][4]
Yirra Yaakin means "stand tall" in the Noongar language.[citation needed]
In 2013, Yirra Yaakin staged Bob Merritt's play The Cake Man for the first time in WA, in a collaboration with the Belvoir.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Shevtsov, Katya (2014), Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company : twenty-one years of sharing Aboriginal stories, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, ISBN 978-1-925005-11-0
- ^ Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre : collection of posters, 1900, retrieved 6 January 2020
- ^ Narkle, Geoffrey; Milroy, David (2014), Yirra Yaakin presents King hit, Yirra Yaakin, retrieved 6 January 2020
- ^ Radio National (1 May 2013), The museum as a stage for Yirra Yaakin theatre, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2020
- ^ "Robert Merritt's The Cake Man makes WA debut" (Text, photos, audio.). Radio National. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
External links
edit- Official website
- "Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre". AusStage. 7 May 2019.
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