On the lands of alpine Victoria, on Gunaikurnai country, a story of familial bonds unfolds. Faced with the looming foreclosure of her familys property, a farmers daughter is on the hunt in the rugged Australian bush -- on territory that by rights isnt hers to travel through. From deep between the eucalypts, another woman -- a mother dingo -- searches desperately for her lost pups. She howls into the night, run ragged by hunger and grief. Over the course of one long night, the Woman and Dingo forge an alliance to claw closer to the things they ache for ... but its a dangerous deal to make. Tumble down the dingos den into a work of sheer Australian Gothic, brought to you by the collaborative collision of playwrights Andrea James (Sunshine Super Girl) and AWGIE-winner Catherine Ryan. Dogged is a bloody parable painted with electric movement and a story that stares you straight down the barrel.
Andrea James, a graduate of La Trobe University and the Victorian College of the Arts. She co-directed Crowfire for Playbox's Blak Inside season, and Magpie for Melbourne Workers Theatre. She recognises theatre as a place where oppressed people and classes can find unity, strength, power, expression and language. Theatre is about the only place in today's society where she can hear and speak the language of her father's peoplethe Yorta Yorta. James is of Aboriginal and Polish descent.
