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Mic Drop is a bold, urgent play about art, power, free speech and censorship.

Rising Aboriginal rap duo SOVEREIGN – Jay ‘J Fire’ Thomas and Cleo Hart – gain national attention for their viral tracks speaking truth about colonisation, systemic injustice, and solidarity with global Indigenous communities. When they win a prestigious government-funded arts fellowship for “bold new voices”, it seems like recognition has finally arrived. But the applause quickly fades. A prominent council community member contacts the Arts Minister, accusing them of using taxpayer money to “incite division” and “undermine social cohesion”. Within days, the award is revoked. Through protest poetry, sharp humour, and cutting commentary, Mic Drop asks: what happens when truth-tellers refuse to stay quiet? And, in a nation where colonial power still shapes law and media, whose version of “free speech” gets protected – and whose gets punished?

Despite my traumatic childhood people ask me “Why do you still attend Church every Sunday?” My response is “I have always had a strong childlike belief in God which has never left me.”

Stolen Childhood is the powerful story of Aunty Valerie’s life. Aunty Valerie is part of Australia’s stolen generation. This is her story of struggle through childhood and the inspirational testimony of how she found her way back to Country. 

Quinn is the youngest child of Mother Helena, Queen of the space colony, Lumen. He embarks on the journey of self-discovery and the odd occurrence of forbidden spiritual connection. Although he has been set to marry the princess of a neighbouring colony, he’s suddenly immersed with dreams of a mystery earth man (Xavier), who he begins to trust and who fuels Quinn’s passion to live his most authentic life. His mother and two sisters grow suspicious of Quinns sudden interest in humankind, and he is told that his species is far more advanced than their human ancestral lineage, so he should focus on his royal duties.

Throughout the story, Quinn and Xavier come to realise that they are bound in their Somnium and are intertwining their Hum at the same time. From that moment on, they begin to learn and grow as one in their dream world, hoping one day to make their dreams become a reality. The one thing that stands in their way is Quinn’s controlling mother, and an inevitable prophecy made by the High Priestess.