by
Thomas Keneally

winner of the Booker Prize for
Schindler's List


Cast includes Australian Aboriginal actors:

Stephen "Baamba" Albert
Heath Bergersen
Dennis Simmons
and Natasha Wanganeen
(Nina in Rabbit-Proof Fence)

also featuring Kevin Costello, Tim Hudson & Lee Byron Jones

Directed by Michael Walling

Designed by Jamie Vartan
Lighting by Nick Moran

British Première presented in association with
Phoenix Arts, Leicester,
Jiriki Management, Australia,
& Riverside Studios, London

Photo by Alastair McNaughton.
www.desertimages.com.au

(Royalties are paid to Aboriginal communities.)

Production Photographs by David Ennis.

Bullie's House is the story of Australian Aboriginals who expose their precious ranga, totems which hold the secrets of the world, to the eyes of white Australians, in the belief that the white world in return will exchange its own wisdom and its technology.

"What did those elders want us to learn by the sight of the ranga? What ranga did they expect to be shown in answer? What great gifts did they want from us? What armistice between old and new did they hope to bring about? What adjustment of the equilibrium of the world did they seek? So that Bullie's house and all their houses could go on standing?"

Tim Hudson as Rev. Hugh Burton

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Stephen "Baamba" Albert as Dallie.

22 April benefit night for Survival International

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