La Boite Theatre Presents A Griffin Theatre Company Production
Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. When they look at each other, it’s tense, exciting, and strange.
Ty and Neddy fall madly in love, as teenagers are wont to do. After a rough start, a fragile friendship fruits into a heady romance.
If history would just unfurl a little differently, the boys might have a beautiful future ahead of them. But without knowing it, Ty and Neddy are poised on the brink of a world that is about to change forever.
It’s the early 19th century. Ty is River Mob. Neddy is Mountain Mob. And the earth they stand together on is about to be declared ‘Australia’.
Whitefella Yella Tree is a heart-warming and heartbreaking story about love, Country, and Blak Queerness.
Presented by La Boite Theatre
Whitefella Yella Tree is one of those rare works that explores multiple, quite epic themes of love, Country, invasion and Blak queerness, yet does so in an immensely relatable style. Subtle, clever and straight to the heart. ★★★★.5
