At What Cost?

Putalina, Oyster Cove, just south of Hobart, Tasmania. A Palawa man, Boyd Everett, is determined to do right – by his family, by the land, and by his people.

The bones of his ancestor, William Lanne are being returned to him. Boyd has been chosen by the Land Council to light the fire which will reunite Lanne with the “old fellas in the sky where there’s wallaby bounding everywhere. Where there’s an abalone under every swaying piece of bull kelp. Where there are crayfish under every hanging rock ledge. Where there’s a mutton bird in every burrow.”

But strangers are arriving. Strangers now making claims on all Boyd holds dear, ready to dig up the pain of the past and drag it into the present.

Nathan Maynard’s extraordinary tale of a family and a community in crisis arrives at State Theatre Company South Australia following its acclaimed world premiere at Belvoir St Theatre.