Merlinda Bobis's 'River, River' on airplay
'River, River': Music Theatre on Radio
ABC Radio National, 26 March and 31 March 2006
To keep a place alive in your heart, it must dwell in your mouth. And so the river is spoken and sung and all the beloved thrown into the water.
Faculty of Creative Arts lecturers Merlinda Bobis and Lotte Latukefu perform with Australian actors and the Bitabaras, a Filipino-Australian family of chanters from the Illawarra. A poetic monologue and opera composed by Sarah de Jong blend with the Pasyon, a traditional style of Philippine chanting. Production is by Jane Ulman and Russell Stapleton. Adapted from Merlinda’s short story Fish-Hair Woman (from her collection White Turtle), River, River is about militarism and singing the dead to sleep. The production received a grant from the ABC Regional Fund in 2005.
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong
March 2006
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