Production still for "The Call". L- R: Earle Rosas as The Dancer, Jeremy Stanford as Tom Wills. Photographer: Unknown
The Call
By Bruce Myles
14 October 2004 – 06 November 2004 Beckett Theatre
Adapted from Martin Flanagan's novel
Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne International Arts Festival,
New Adaptation Theatre World Premiere Co-Production
This adaptation of Martin Flanagan's novel about Tom Wills, one of Australia's great sportsmen and arguably the inventor of Australian rules football, is a significant historical recuperation. ... It is imbued with reconciliatory goodwill and sympathetically captures the damage to both whites and blacks in the wars that accompanied settlement. Tom Wills grew up with Aboriginal playmates, but was to lose his family in a Queensland massacre, a retaliatory strike from tribes who were being cleared like vermin from their land.
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