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For their next chat, artistic co-director Rachael Swain came along. But that was a hard day.had just told the story of the Northern Territory’s Don Dale detention centre, a barbaric place where children were abused.
“The most provocative thing he does for us is frame the questions. And the questions activate our art-making.”One question he posed was “how we could embody fear on stage”, Swain says. She found the answer in, the book about cruelty, incarceration and hope by former Manus Island inmate Behrouz Boochani.Boochani says the company made contact about using his work just after he arrived in New Zealand, overwhelmed with requests and emails.
He had long thought about the link between the experiences of refugees and Indigenous Australians. And he increasingly feels that art has a power journalism lacks. “The audience, readers, they connect [with] that human experience, and that feeling, that suffering ... Art is a powerful language.”
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