Pakana writer Nathan Maynard's impressive debut play is about moonbird people but is rooted in the everyday, with an ability to laugh about itself - hard Once a year in Tasmania, Aboriginal men and women hunt mutton birds to sell for their meat, oil and feathers. According to a Dreamtime story, these birds flew down from the moon. Their captors are known as moonbird people. Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AM on January 13, 2017