Kullark drew on his six decades of life experience it also marked the evolution of Indigenous oral story-telling tradition into a new, written form. Jack Davis was 61 years old when his first full length play, Kullark, premiered at the tiny Titan Theatre in Perth on 21 February 1979. He understood storytelling and he was always political, whether writing poetry, articles for journals or plays – but with plays he found he could get at people’s emotions.’ He inspired other Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to use the stage as a forum for communicating with white people. Katharine Brisbane, whose Currency Press published most of Jack Davis’s plays, described himas Australia’s ‘most influential black playwright, although he was not the first.
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