Coranderrk retells a forgotten story in Australian history between a group of Indigenous people and the Aboriginal Protection Board. At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the men and women of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve went head-to-head with the Aboriginal Protection Board, fighting to be allowed to continue the brilliant, self-sustaining farming community they had established on the scrap of country left to them, after being displaced from their lands by the advancement of European colonisation.
Inspired by transcripts from the 1881 Inquiry, an ensemble cast of Australia’s best Indigenous actors, including Coranderrk descendant and Green Room Lifetime Achievement Award-recipient Jack Charles, will recreate the inquiry to shed light on this forgotten struggle.
