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Production still for Sydney season of "Yibiyung". L-R: Jada Alberts as Yirribin, Miranda Tapsell as Yibiyung. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Yibiyung

By Dallas Winmar

30 October 2008 – 16 November 2008 Beckett Theatre

Malthouse Theatre, Company B Belvoir,

Theatre Co-Production

Western Australia in the 1920s: eight-year-old Yibiyung is taken from her home and sent to a mission where her 'education' soon extends far beyond the English lessons she is subjected to. The secrets passed on from her mother and uncle prove as vital to life as anything she learns in the classroom, but when she is bought as a domestic servant by a wealthy white family she must garner all of her life's resources to survive.

Production still for Sydney season of "Yibiyung". L-R: Annie Byron as the Teacher, Jada Alberts as Yirribin, Miranda Tapsell as Yibiyung, Jimi Bani as Smiley, Melodie Reynolds as Djindi . Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Production still for Sydney season of "Yibiyung". L-R: Russell Dykstra as the Farmer, Miranda Tapsell as Yibiyung, Sybilla Budd as Lady, Roxanne McDonald as Cook. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Production still for Sydney season of "Yibiyung". L-R: (front) Miranda Tapsell as Yibiyung, David Page as Uncle, Jada Alberts as Yirribin. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Production still for Sydney season of "Yibiyung". L-R: Annie Byron as the Teacher, Jada Alberts as Yirribin, Miranda Tapsell as Yibiyung, Jimi Bani as Smiley, Melodie Reynolds as Djindi . Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Production still for Sydney season of "Yibiyung". L-R: Russell Dykstra as the Farmer, Miranda Tapsell as Yibiyung, Sybilla Budd as Lady, Roxanne McDonald as Cook. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr

Production still for Sydney season of "Yibiyung". L-R: (front) Miranda Tapsell as Yibiyung, David Page as Uncle, Jada Alberts as Yirribin. Photographer: Heidrun Löhr