“Growing up, I only recall learning a few words here and there,” she says. “My parents didn’t speak the language in our household fluently. Words like balai and aliwah — ‘pay attention!’ or ‘watch out ...

Of all the ways to keep alive an ancient language, only spoken by a few hundred people, staging a Shakespearian play is not an obvious one. Hecate is the play Macbeth, translated and performed in ...

It lies in the incredible ambition — so big it raises anxiety in even the most supportive viewer — to return an indigenous nation’s language to centre stage in the cultural life of a state. To perform ...

takes have come to feel more rare than “creative” ones. Voodoo Macbeth’s most significant shift (Welles’s all-black cast has been nixed) is the beefing up of the role of Hecate (William Hayes) into ...

Australia’s first major Shakespearean production in Noongar language will retell ‘Macbeth’ at Perth Festival The Noongar language of Western Australia is endangered; few can speak it fluently.