Kangaroo Stew

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LONGLISTED, 2025 ABDA AWARDS, BEST DESIGNED LITERARY FICTION/POETRY COVER

David s family think he s come home for the anniversary of his Dad s death. But he s got another reason to return home he s working to broker a deal with a mining company to dig up his own sacred land and hopefully get them all out of poverty forever.

To complicate matters, the whole family are being visited by a persistent ghost who has something to settle before it can move on.

Kangaroo Stew is a lively and controversial contribution to the modern Aboriginal theatre movement that gives insight into the life of a modern Aboriginal family living with the mining economy. There will be love, punch-ups, singing, and of course, the spirits of ancestors past.