Jane Harrison

Jane Harrison (* 1960 ) writes plays and is an Aboriginal of the Muruwari people from New South Wales in Australia near Bourke . She is best known for her play Stolen Generation . Her main focus is on the topics and life stories of the Aborigines .

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Jane Harrison has been with the Ilbijerri Theater Company since 1992 . There she wrote the piece Stolen , which was first performed in 1998 in Melbourne in 1998. The play Stolen Generations deals with the fate of five Aboriginal children who were taken from their mothers. In addition to Australia and Tasmania , Stolen has been shown in Great Britain , Hong Kong , Tokyo , New York and Canada .

Another play by her is On a Park Bench , where the generation of extinct Aborigines and those of the Holocaust victims meet.

Her play Rainbow's End (also called Rumbalara), which premiered in Melbourne in 2005, tells the story of three generations of Aboriginal women fighting against racism and for a living in a small town in the 1950s.

Her last play is called Blakvelvet , which is about the disappearance of two girls, one from the Koori Aboriginal tribe and another girl who are wanted by a detective.

Harrison is currently (2009) preparing an opera for a new performance. She has won several prizes with her pieces, such as the Indigenous Award.

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SURNAME	Harrison, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian playwright, Aboriginal
DATE OF BIRTH	1960