Redfern Renaissance

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Redfern Renaissance

  • 16 Jan – 2 Feb Downstairs Theatre
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Redfern
Renaissance

Sydney Festival 2025

Creative Director Angeline Penrith

  • Venue Downstairs Theatre
  • Dates 16 Jan – 2 Feb
  • Co-presented with
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  • Indigenous theatre at Belvoir supported by
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    • Geoffrey Bagnall/SMH

Sydney Festival’s Blak Out program returns to Belvoir St Theatre in 2025!

Alongside Jacky in the Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir’s Community Liaison Coordinator and well-known Wiradjuri Yuin actor and Redfern resident Angeline Penrith (Wayside Bride, Winyanboga Yurringa) has curated a series of workshops, discussion panels and performances celebrating the history of The National Black Theatre Redfern.

The program particularly references the two productions of National Black Theatre which operated in Redfern from 1972-1977: The Cake Man by Robert Merritt and Here Comes the N****r by Gerry Bostock – a work that has never been published in full and to this day can only be found in excerpts.

Join us for a deep dive into the productions and the writers of these two plays, acknowledging that they never found a home/keeping place following their first performances but left a long legacy of activism, self-determination, and radical re-thinking of Blak futures through the arts.

What’s On

The Cake Man Staged Readings + Panel Discussion

Here Comes the N****r Staged Readings + Panel Discussion

Until Justice Comes Book Launch + In Conversation with Juno Gemes (Ticketed Free Event)

Mural and Photo Exhibition ‘The Genius of Blak Theatre Days’ by Juno Gemes (Free Event)

  • 16th January – 2nd February, 1.5 hours before Jacky performances

Prices

Staged Readings and Panel Discussions………..$25
Mob Tickets……………………………………………………Free

Book Launch………………………………………………….Free
Mural and Photo Exhibition…………………………..Free

TEAM

  • Angeline Penrith
    Creative Director
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    Angeline is a Wiradjuri and Yuin woman who grew up in the Redfern/Waterloo community.  Making her acting debut at 12 years of age by opening for ABC’s BlackOut, Angeline has gone on to perform in countless film and theatre productions from development to performance.  Her theatre credits include Boori Pryors My Girragundji (Canute Productions), The […]

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  • Creatives

  • Abbie-lee Lewis
    Assistant Director
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    Abbie-lee Lewis is a Kalkadoon actress who trained on the Aboriginal Theatre and Acting courses at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth. Her credits include David Finnigan’s Scenes from the Climate Era, for Belvoir St Theatre, Seanna Van Helten’s Fallen, directed by Penny Harpham, for Sport for Jove; Our Town, directed by Clare […]

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  • Guest Artists Including

  • Elaine Crombie
  • Beau Dean Riley Smith
  • Juno Gemes
  • Rarriwuy Hick
  • Darlene Johnson
  • Rachael Maza
  • Leroy Parsons
  • Bronwyn Penrith