Australian Theatre Live and The Q present
Whitefella Yella Tree
11 Jul 26
The Q
14+
a Griffin Theatre Company production
Experience the filmed recording of Griffin Theatre’s 2022 production of Whitefella Yella Tree, as part of NAIDOC Week 2026
Overview
Date
Saturday, 11 July 2026
Time
4:30pm
Venue
The Q
Running time
90 minutes, incl. 20 minute interval
Audience advice
Contains haze, loud noise, blinding lights, sex scenes and weapons. It contains descriptions and representations of colonial violence.
Tickets
Q Member $10
Non-Member – $15
Description
Classification
Filmed recording of 2022 Griffin Theatre production, as part of NAIDOC Week 2026
Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. After a rough start, a fragile friendship fruits into a heady romance. Ty and Neddy fall madly in love, as teenagers are wont to do.
If history would just unfurl a little differently, the boys might have a beautiful future ahead of them. But without knowing it, Ty and Neddy are poised on the brink of a world that is about to change forever. It’s the early 19th century. Ty is River Mob. Neddy is Mountain Mob. And the earth they stand together on is about to be declared ‘Australia’.
In his young career, Dylan Van Den Berg has won the Griffin Award, the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, and the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. In Whitefella Yella Tree he has penned a heart-warming and heartbreaking story about love, Country, and Blak queerness throughout history. Starring Helpmann Award-winner Guy Simon (First Love is the Revolution, Wakefield), and nurtured through the Griffin Studio program, Whitefella Yella Tree is a force of nature and a tender first kiss.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with a member of the cast.
Everything one could possibly ask of a playwright, Van Den Berg delivers, through the greatest of acuity and sophistication. ★★★★★
Suzy Wrong, Suzy Goes See
The actors create something impossibly tender that still bites with gloriously lived-in detail. As they fall in love with each other, we fall in love with them. ★★★★
Cassie Tongue, Sydney Morning Herald