A Wharfies Story - Play, Protest, Consequence
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The Consequence publishes for the first time the research materials, photographs, drawings, writings, and documents produced and gathered during the making of multifaceted art project A Wharfie’s Story (2015). At the project’s heart was the development of an original theatrical work co-created by myself, as a performing arts teacher, and students aged eight to ten years, as part of the Reggio Emilia-inspired curriculum at Collingwood College, a P-12 school in inner–city Melbourne. The work included a free, outdoor, twelve-act performance, as well as a script, two subsequent exhibitions authored by myself, drawings and diagrams, research documentation and this book, which reflects on the various elements of the project as a whole.A Wharfie’s Story is based on Jim Beggs and his wife Tui’s true-life tale of perseverance and hardship as a wharfie and trade union family. Focused around the fight for fair work conditions on Melbourne’s North Wharf from the 1950s to the 1970s, the play focused on Beggs’ struggle to move from the corrupt bull system—where workers were hired on a daily basis at a central pick-up point—to become an independent unionist and negotiate fair work for wharfies. As the educator and therefore curriculum builder, Maxwell worked with forty-three students over two terms at Collingwood College to develop the play as part of the performing arts curriculum.Along with a school performance in the gym (20 November 2015), the main presentation was an hour-long performance on the lawn of Buluk Park—in front of Library at The Dock on Melbourne’s North Wharf—on a warm and windy summer day (21 November 2015). The public space was transformed into a theatrical platform, juxtaposing the historic tale of the wharf against the site’s contemporary 21st century interface. Jim Beggs himself introduced the performance to an audience of families and historians, who applauded the students upon co
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