The Indigenous Barristers' Strategy Working Party invites you to The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table
Thu Aug 16 2007The Indigenous Barristers' Strategy Working Party is proud to support The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table, a�powerful and stirring play by Wesley Enoch about four generations of an Indigenous family on Stradbroke Island.�Join members of the working party�for drinks�at 7.00pm at the SBW Stables Theatre on Friday, 31 August 2007 (performance starts at 8.00pm).�It�tells the story of a�young Aboriginal manâs yearning to understand his history, which�is at odds with his motherâs desire to protect his future.
In the 1870s a girl is born under a tree, her birth tree, chosen to give her strength and wisdom. When the tree is cut down she follows it into the white manâs world, working as a cook for the big house on the island. Her tree has become a kitchen table, one she will pass down through successive generations as a legacy - a way of carving out her family stories. Now, generations later, a young man and his mother fight for ownership of the table. � Directed by one of Australiaâs foremost directors, Marion Potts (Othello, Wonderlands), Cookieâs Table is emotionally stirring yet full of wonderful humour, and a timely reflection on how an individual family can heal itself.
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Cindy Penrose cpenrose@nswbar.asn.au fax: 9221 1149
29�August 2007