Was And Will Be

‘I am the protector. Watching over the boys as they sleep. Guiding them in their dreams. This is my story. This is our yarn from this country.’ — ‘My River Country’, Brodie Murray

Was and Will Be braids together an array of Aboriginal narratives spanning monologues, dialogues, choruses and dynamic movement sequences — designed to be performed by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors.

Playwrights Tracey Rigney, Tom Molyneux and Brodie Murray, these stories touch upon ancient and contemporary legacies of ceremony, community-building and truth-telling, among other topics. They traverse topics ranging from the digeridoo to Australian Rules Football.

With stage directions conceived by Nick Waxman, this was first performed as a large cast middle school production at Haileybury College in Melbourne in 2024.