No Sugar is a four-act play written by Jack Davis. It is the story of an Aboriginal family’s struggles for dignity, equality, and justice during the Australian depression of the s. It has much in common with other literary touchstones of activism, such as John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, and more. Oombulgurri massacre. Follow the link below to the account of the Forrest River massacre referred to in No Sugar. The justice system found that 11 people had been killed while other eye-witness accounts say as many as Aboriginal people were killed after 1 pastoralist was killed by a local Aboriginal man. Oombulgurri massacre. Strangers in “our own country”, No Sugar by Dr Jennifer Minter. Ernie Dingo, who performed in many of Jack Davis’s plays, writes: “We are not/ Strangers/ In our own country/ Just/ Strangers/ To a European society/ And it is hard/ To be one/ When / The law/ Is the other.”. Jack Davis, Noong-ah, was born in in Perth; his mother was taken from her tribe in Broome and reared by a white family; his father, Estimated Reading Time: 12 mins.
Investigation-No Sugar by Jack Davis Jack Davis is a renowned Indigenous man, famous for his playwriting, acting, poetry and Aboriginal activism. Born in Perth in , Davis, The fourth child in a family of eleven, spent his upbringing in Yarloop and the Moore River Native Settlement, located approximately 96 kilometres South of his birthplace. No Sugar received standing ovations when performed in Vancouver and Edinburgh in "The native must be helped in spite of himself". No Sugar by Jack Davis was first performed as part of the Festival of Perth in to great acclaim. Throughout the play, Davis depicts the First Australians struggling to survive in sub-human conditions. No Sugar is a play written by Jack Davis, published in It takes place during the Great Depression in Western Australia and follows an Aboriginal family, the Millimuras, as they navigate life on corrupt reservations and contend with the structural violence and racism of the white authorities who purport to protect them.
No Sugar is a four-act play written by Jack Davis. It is the story of an Aboriginal family’s struggles for dignity, equality, and justice during the Australian depression of the s. It has much in common with other literary touchstones of activism, such as John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, and more. No Sugar, the drama written by Jack Davis, highlights the exploitation of Aborigines in Australia in ’s. More explicitly, it concerned the relations of Millimurra, and their immense success against the whites and treated like substances in their own country. No Sugar Summary. The play begins in in the city of Northam, on the Government Well Aboriginal Reserve, where the Millimurra-Munday family, comprising Jimmy, Sam, Milly, Gran, Joe, Cissie, and David live. Australia, like the rest of the world, is suffering from the Great Depression, and so work and money are scarce.
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