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Bard takes Yirra Yaakin to a new stage</h1></div><div class="story-info" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px;width:520px;clear:both;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style-type:none!important;display:inline">
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<li class="source  " style="display:inline;margin-right:5px"><span class="source-prefix" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;width:4000px;overflow:hidden">From:</span><cite style="font-style:normal"><a class="source-theaustralian" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(39,127,156)">The Australian</a> </cite></li>
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</ul></div><p></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px 40px 0px 0px"><strong>IT struck Kyle Morrison as a surreal experience when he stood on the stage at the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London, reciting six of Shakespeare's sonnets in an Aboriginal language.</strong></p>
</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px 40px 0px 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The historic event took place in April, in the lead-up to the London Olympics. Perth-based Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company had been invited by the organisers of the Cultural Olympiad to perform Shakespeare in the Nyungar language of southwest Australia.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px 40px 0px 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"They wanted to have an example of one of the world's oldest languages," says Morrison, 30, who is Yirra Yaakin's artistic director. "It was the first time an Australian Aboriginal language was performed on the historic Globe Theatre stage, the first time any of Shakespeare's work had been translated into Nyungar and the first time Aboriginal actors had performed on the stage."</p>
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Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/bard-takes-yirra-yaakin-to-a-new-stage/story-e6frg8n6-1226530744974">http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/bard-takes-yirra-yaakin-to-a-new-stage/story-e6frg8n6-1226530744974</a></div>
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