Published: May 25, 2021
Sydney Theatre Company
Directed by Shari Sebbens, Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman’s 1995 play blends fury, humour and fabulous embellishments with a call to action
Elaine Crombie stands on a black box stage, surrounded by midden shells on mounds of black earth, her hands clasped in tension. The rage is there in this singular woman’s emotionally affecting performance – and so is the grief.
Crombie, a Yankunytjatjara, Warrigmal and South Sea Islander woman with German ancestry, speaks English and Kamilaroi in this one-woman play, The 7 Stages of Grieving. She finds the sharp rhythm in the poetry of invasion: “My children, stolen away to a safe place, were wrenched from familiar arms and forced to feed upon another tongue.”
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