Jane Harrison went to the same university that I did and Wesley Enoch (director) was in my year, but in a different course.

Jane Harrison is Director of Blak & Bright, First Nations Literary Festival

Jane Harrison has a sister

There have been numerous productions of Rainbow's End, but the pictures I have used in my slides are from the Darlinghurst Theatre Company production in 2019

• Jane was raised by her mother alongside her sister in the Victorian Dandenong's.

• She lives in Melbourne and has two daughters.

• She has aboriginal heritage through her mothers side of the family, although she mentions she did not see them or have much contact with them growing up.

Education

• Her first job was as a copywriter for advertising agencies before she got commissioned to write the play 'Stolen'

• She has an MA in Playwriting from the Queensland University of Technology

• labour market segregation (discrimination)

• gender pay differentials

• misogyny/patriarchy

Indigenous representation

• belonging

• identity

• history

social and political issues

• misogyny/patriarchy

• pay gap in sport

• policies in order to overcome issues

housing economics

• discrimination within the housing market and crisis

https://www.notredame.edu.au/about-us/faculties-and-schools/school-of-law-and-business/business-fremantle/school-staff/Jane-Harrison

Walkabout (Play Adaption)

(Premiered 2005) - Based on Nicholas Roeg's original 1970s film of the same name.

These two are the earliest works before Rainbow's end. There could be more, but information on Jane Harrison's plays that weren't award winning are rather obscure.

- resistance to social prejudices and biased policies scene in her characters

racism and segregation

- paternalism: infantilizing view of indigenous people as incapable of looking after themselves and thus needing protection from white people

- assimilation: allusion to the history of the stolen generation and assimilation policies

- segregation: symbols of segregation, critiques scapegoating of aboriginal people for the living conditions opposed on them through segregationist policies

dreams

- the dreams and hopes of individual characters, playright's own hopes and dreams for the future of australia and indigenous rights

- cynicism and pessimism: in characters fueled by past trauma, aims to prompt audience to question how the hopelessness and distrust that comes with generational and personal trauma can prevent progress towards better future