Scones with Nanna

Big Mama Productions

15 May

Start: 6.30pm

Finish: 7.35pm

Location: Cossack

Ages: 16+

Adult:  $30, Conc:  $25, Group 6+:  $25

Tickets: https://KARRATHA.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/161649

Scones with Nanna invites you into a space that is rich with history and nostalgia. It allows you to immerse yourself in the narrative on an intimate level.

The story travels through 100 years in time while Nanna descends into the shrinking world of dementia. It maps an important time in Western Australia’s history and explores themes of cultural identity and truth telling, as Nanna tells her story using a  wicked humour in the face of adversity.

‘Scones with Nanna’ is both timely and important in a time when First Nations stories are being put at the centre of the Australian arts landscape,

This story is about family and is a heartfelt exploration of vulnerability and truth telling. Where the lived experience of Indigenous people is front and centre.

It is a site-specific play designed to be performed in old houses.

It tells true the story of Nanna, a Ballardong Noongar woman who was taught to deny her Aboriginal heritage and to say that she was Māori

It starts outside the house with a sound scape of the tent city of the rifle Range East Fremantle, where Nanna was born. It was a place that the police knew very well.

Nanna hangs the last of her washing before sitting to peel potatoes and wait for her granddaughters to arrive by real car in real time.

Nanna’s story unfolds as the audience move through her house. Nanna smashes the theatre 4th wall and the audience who sit on the prop furniture share direct eye contact with the actors and are fed real scones

The audience become extras in the play as Nanna recognises the ghosts of her friends and people from her past.

Most of the action takes place at the kitchen table as Nanna makes scones. While she shares her scattered memories with her granddaughters.

After a lifetime of carefully forgetting the truth, dementia stole any memories that Nanna still had, which could have ensured that her story was forgotten but one of her granddaughters who sat at that table eating scones with her and her troubled and troublesome older sister in 1972 wrote it down. This play is the result.

Warnings: Swearing and discussion of adult themes, gluten free scones are not available.