Merrigong Theatre Company's Artistic Development Manager Leland Kean chats with author and playwright Kirli Saunders about her career and her work-in-development Going Home.

Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai Woman, award-winning international writer, teacher, consultant and artist and was named the 2020 NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year.

Inspired by Kirli Saunders’ own reconnection Country and Community, Going Home explores the intersection of the removal of four siblings taken from their families in 1970’s and the homecoming of those siblings, to Country in present day.

Weaving fiction with truth, poetry with prose and language with land, this workoffers solace to those similarly disconnected and celebrates the strength, survival and warmth of First Nations communities. It explores the intergenerational impacts of our shared history and confronts what we leave behind when we are forced to go, and prompts us to think about what lies ahead.

Reserve your spot for the Development Showing of Going Home 11am Sat 20 August