The Indigenous Barristers' Strategy Working Party invites you to The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table

16/08/2007

The Indigenous Barristers' Strategy Working Party is proud to support The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table, a�powerful and stirring play by Wesley Enoch about four generations of an Indigenous family on Stradbroke Island.�Join members of the working party�for drinks�at 7.00pm at the SBW Stables Theatre on Friday, 31 August 2007 (performance starts at 8.00pm).�It�tells the story of a�young Aboriginal man’s yearning to understand his history, which�is at odds with his mother’s desire to protect his future.

In the 1870s a girl is born under a tree, her birth tree, chosen to give her strength and wisdom. When the tree is cut down she follows it into the white man’s world, working as a cook for the big house on the island. Her tree has become a kitchen table, one she will pass down through successive generations as a legacy - a way of carving out her family stories. Now, generations later, a young man and his mother fight for ownership of the table. � Directed by one of Australia’s foremost directors, Marion Potts (Othello, Wonderlands), Cookie’s Table is emotionally stirring yet full of wonderful humour, and a timely reflection on how an individual family can heal itself.

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Please send payment form to:

Cindy Penrose cpenrose@nswbar.asn.au fax: 9221 1149

29�August 2007