Boambilly Temporary Theatre

When the Indigenous play write Robert Merritt entered the now defunct National Black Theatre in Redfern for the première of his1975 landmark play The Cake Man, he was manacled to two prison guards. 50 years on, Australia is still failing in reconcile the consciences of its colonial history that contributed to Merritts incarceration. Boambilly Temporary Theatre aims to bring Merritts work back into the national conversation, to work towards an equable future for all Australians. The temporality of the theatre amplifies the engagement with the concepts of the play and an engagement with the harbour at large. A harbour that is in consent flux through the influence of the celestial bodies and climate change. The Boambilly Temporary Theatre acts as a registration of this flux.