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Show Us Your Tiddas!
''Show Us Your Tiddas!'' is a play written and performed by Lou Bennett and directed by Rachael Maza Rachael Zoa Maza is an Indigenous Australian television and film actress and stage director. Early life and education Maza is of Dutch, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian heritage, the daughter of Bob Maza, also an actor. She is ... in 2007. ''Show Us Your Tiddas!'' shares its name with the last album by Bennett's band Tiddas, spelt '' Show Us Ya Tiddas''. It is an autobiographical work that follows Bennetts life, telling stories such as her coming out to her family, her first live performance, moving to the city and her time with Tiddas. Bennett's performance is backed by members of her current band Sweet Cheeks. review: Show Us Ya Tiddas! , Lou Bennett
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Lou Bennett (musician)
Lou Bennett is an Indigenous Australian musician, actor and academic researching Aboriginal languages and their retrieval. Early life and education Bennett is a Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung woman from Echuca, Victoria, Australia. In October 2015 Bennett completed a PhD on Aboriginal language retrieval and reclamation at RMIT University. Her thesis was entitled "Sovereign Language Repatriation". Career Bennett started her musical career with her uncle's band "The Shades", before later joining Richard Frankland's band " Djaambi", where she met Sally Dastey and Amy Saunders—Bennett, Dastey and Saunders later formed the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Award-winning band Tiddas. After Tiddas disbanded in 2000, Bennett performed with a new band Sweet Cheeks and has worked as a stage actor—the latter has included an autobiographical show '' Show Us Your Tiddas!''. ''Show Us Your Tiddas!'' follows Bennett's life as she recounts a series of stories that inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Maza
Rachael Zoa Maza is an Indigenous Australian television and film actress and stage director. Early life and education Maza is of Dutch, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian heritage, the daughter of Bob Maza, also an actor. She is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Career Television and film Maza worked as a TV presenter on ABC Television's weekly show focusing on Indigenous Australians, ''Message Stick''. and SBS's '' ICAM''. She has numerous credits as an actor in television series, including ''Wentworth, Winners and Losers, Halifax f.p., Stingers, SeaChange'', ''Heartland'' (in which her father also had a role), ''A Country Practice'' and ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries''. She acted in the films ''Cosi'' (1996), ''Radiance'' (1998), and Lillian's Story (1996). Stage Maza worked with Company B and Wesley Enoch for many years, with her performances at the Belvoir St Theatre including leading roles in ''Conversations with the Dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiddas (band)
Tiddas were an all-female Folk music, folk trio from Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Biography 1990–1992: Career beginnings and ''Inside My Kitchen'' Originally the three women, Amy Saunders (a Gunditjmara woman from Portland), Lou Bennett (a Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung woman from Echuca) and Sally Dastey (from West Heidelberg) combined their vocal talents as backing singers for Aboriginal band Djaambi, led by Saunders' brother Richard Frankland in 1990. The group were invited to perform at a musical celebration for women's artistic achievement, 'Hot Jam Cooking', in Richmond, Victoria. Their performance was well received and inspired Ruby Hunter to dub the trio Tiddas, which is Koori for the "sisters". After performing together for over a year the band came to the attention of Paul Petran, host of ABC National Radio show 'Music Deli', who assisted Tiddas to record their debut Extended play, EP, ''Inside My Kitchen'' in 1991. ''Inside My Kitchen'' was released in O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Show Us Ya Tiddas
''Tiddas'' is the first and only live album by Australian three-piece folk group Tiddas. It is also the group's final recording with the group disbanding shortly after its release in May 2000. The album was recorded live at the Continental Café in Prahran, over two nights in September 1999. The album was released in late 1999. Reception Deadly Magazine said "The album is a celebration of a decade of making music, defying trends and forging friendships all around the world." adding "The album features 11 new tracks filled with classic Tiddas passions: peace, families, politics, women's issues and most important of all, love.. nd this istheir best work yet." Track listing See also * Show Us Your Tiddas!, a 2007 play written and performed by Lou Bennett and directed by Rachael Maza Rachael Zoa Maza is an Indigenous Australian television and film actress and stage director. Early life and education Maza is of Dutch, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian heritage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autobiography
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical ''The Monthly Review'', when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic". However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey in 1809. Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity. Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from the periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that " utobiographyis a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time". Autobiography thus takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Plays
Theatre of Australia refers to the history of the performing arts in Australia, or produced by Australians. There are theatrical and dramatic aspects to a number of Indigenous Australian ceremonies such as the corroboree. During its colonial period, Australian theatrical arts were generally linked to the broader traditions of English literature and to British and Irish theatre. Australian literature and theatrical artists (including Aboriginal as well as Anglo-Celtic and multicultural migrant Australians) have over the last two centuries introduced the culture of Australia and the character of a new continent to the world stage. Individuals who have contributed to theatre in Australia and internationally include Sir Robert Helpmann, Dame Joan Sutherland, Barry Humphries, David Williamson, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jim Sharman, Tim Minchin and Baz Luhrmann. Notable theatrical institutions include the Sydney Opera House, and the National Institute of Dramatic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australian Theatre
Theatre of Australia refers to the history of the performing arts in Australia, or produced by Australians. There are theatrical and dramatic aspects to a number of Indigenous Australian ceremonies such as the corroboree. During its colonial period, Australian theatrical arts were generally linked to the broader traditions of English literature and to British and Irish theatre. Australian literature and theatrical artists (including Aboriginal as well as Anglo-Celtic and multicultural migrant Australians) have over the last two centuries introduced the culture of Australia and the character of a new continent to the world stage. Individuals who have contributed to theatre in Australia and internationally include Sir Robert Helpmann, Dame Joan Sutherland, Barry Humphries, David Williamson, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jim Sharman, Tim Minchin and Baz Luhrmann. Notable theatrical institutions include the Sydney Opera House, and the National Institute of Dramatic Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
