Challenging, joyful and deeply affecting, Merrigong Theatre Company presents Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 29 to 31 August 2024.

Throbbing with sadness, anger, joy and resistance Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] is a powerful and provocative new dance, sound and installation work that interrogates Australia’s capacity to lock away and isolate that which we fear. 

Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] confronts Australia’s shameful fixation with incarceration, connecting the outrageous levels of Indigenous imprisonment to the indefinite detaining of asylum seekers. Exceptionally talented dancers draw on cultural and community experience to move deftly between horror, truth-telling, and bodily resistance.