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The Q and HIT Productions present

Waltzing the Wilarra

15 Aug 25

The Q

16+

Written and Composed by David Milroy

Vaudeville humour and political satire with bite!

Overview

15-16 August 2025

2pm & 7:30pm

7:30pm, Fri 15 Aug 2025 

2pm, Sat 16 Aug 2025

7:30pm, Sat 16 Aug 2025

The Q

170 minutes, incl. 20 minute interval

Audience advice

Suitable for ages 16+

Tickets

$30 – $79.90

Adult$79.90
Concession$74.90
Groups 8+$69.90
Q Member$69.90
Under 30$30

Description

Classification

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Charlie, Elsa, and Fay take you back to 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, white and black manage to form their own club. For a night they can forget their worries and experience rare happy times singing, dancing, listening to music, and with a little luck… romance.

Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, our three characters meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomping ground. Dark secrets and ghosts that have lingered for more than half a century are revealed, and we discover that reconciliation is more than saying sorry.

Interspersed with edgy, ‘black’ vaudeville humour and political satire with bite, Waltzing the Wilarra is a multi-award winning Aboriginal music theatre work, written and composed by playwright David Milroy (Windmill Baby), one of Australia’s most exciting and successful Indigenous writers.

A landmark production.

The Sunday Times

Racy, toe-tapping musical numbers abound… just when you think you’ve seen the best act of the evening, the next one arrives

ABC Perth

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body