Our Story
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company produces award-winning world-class theatre that is exciting, insightful, authentic, and culturally appropriate. In over 30 years Yirra Yaakin has commissioned and premiered more than 60 new works reaching 13 countries on 5 continents. Yirra Yaakin has won many awards including Best Mainstage Production (PAWA) for Hecatè 2021, and Outstanding Ensemble, Musicals & Opera for Panawathi Girl 2022, and a prestigious Sidney Myer Award for our outstanding record of facilitating indigenous artistic programs.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company is a locally cherished and nationally important company that supports Aboriginal theatre and culture. We are committed to fostering the next generation of Aboriginal artists, sharing incredible stories told through an Aboriginal lens, and constantly expanding our community engagement and education programs.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company leads by honouring the past, investing in the future, and embracing the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre. We respect the generations past and invest in a thriving future for our artists and arts workers.
JACKY
Jacky is a smart, enterprising young Aboriginal man making a life for himself in the city. He’s skilfully navigating the gig economy, skipping neatly from office internships to cultural performances to sex work. But when his little brother Keith shows up unannounced, Jacky’s carefully compartmentalised lives are thrown into chaos.
Sharp, funny and unflinching, Jacky is a biting new play about family, work, culture and the compromises we make to survive. With wit, grit and a wicked sense of humour, Declan Furber Gillick shines a light on the cost of navigating identity, ambition and connection in contemporary Australia.
Written by Declan Furber Gillick
Directed by Maitland Schnaars and Kate Champion
Dates 23 October – 8 November
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Each year Yirra Yaakin presents a vital and strong education program suitable for young people. We create youth-focused productions, undertake residencies and conduct workshops across the state. We tour locally and regionally, providing unique cultural experiences to some of the most remote communities in the world.
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