Luck of the Draw

by Ned Manning

Overview

Written as a response to the Howard Government's refusal to offer an apology, Luck of the Draw is a hard-hitting play that deals with the tragic consequences of the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families. It focuses on the impact this policy had on both the parents who lost their children and the children who lost their identity. It confronts the issue of identity from the perspective of a fair-skinned woman, raised in a middle-class white family, who discovers she is Indigenous.

Luck of the Draw is based on Ned Manning's experiences at the EORA Centre in Redfern in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It also draws on his own children's experiences in being accepted as Indigenous on the strength of their heritage and identification rather than their skin colour.

'A mesmerising piece of theatre.' - The Australian

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780868196350
Publisher:	Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

NED MANNING is a writer of plays, films, short stories and books. His children's play Alice Dreaming is widely taught in schools both in Australia and abroad. Other plays include Us or Them, Milo, Last One Standing, Kenny's Coming Home. Plays for schools include Kim, Not This Little Black Duck, Gods of War, The Flash Stockman and The Bridge is Down. He has written ten plays for Bell Shakespeare's Actors at Work program. Manning wrote an adaptation for ABC Radio National of Women of Troy which aired in December 2012, as well as a schools version of the same play. Ned has written two plays dealing with the Stolen Generation: Luck of the Draw and Close to the Bone. His latest work, Playground Duty, was published by New South Books. His most recent short plays have been included in 7ON's anthology of monologues for performance No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames.