Bard takes Yirra Yaakin to a new stage (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Bard takes Yirra Yaakin to a new stage

   - BY:VICTORIA LAURIE
   - From:The Australian <http://www.theaustralian.com.au/>
   - December 06, 2012 12:00AM

*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.*

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.

"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."

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