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Holy Day by Andrew Bovell premiered at the State Theatre Company Playhouse in Adelaide, Australia, in the summer of 2001.
Offering an unsettling account of frontier life and racial conflict in the mid-nineteenth-century Australian outback, the drama exposes the often violent contact between white European settlers and native Aboriginal tribes and the subsequent conspiracy of silence that hid the atrocities perpetrated on the indigenous population.
Holy Day unfolds as a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a white infant girl in a desolate region of the Australian frontier. When a distraught missionary's wife stumbles into a remote travelers' inn claiming that an Aboriginal tribe attacked the mission and kidnapped her daughter, she unleashes a range of less than noble reactions from the white colonists who inhabit the area. These reactions range from calls for a swift and vicious reprisal against the Aborigines, to an abject ambivalence about determining the tribe's guilt or innocence, and, finally, to an abdication of the moral responsibility to protect the blameless natives from annihilation.
Caught in the middle of this escalating calamity are the domesticated Aboriginals who endure emotional, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of the white colonists without hope of ever receiving any kind of redress for the injustices committed against them. As the settlers gradually become aware that the missionary's wife may have lied to cover up her own role in her daughter's disappearance, any desire to uncover the truth or to absolve the innocent Aborigines of the crime is subsumed in the chilling resolution not to discuss the matter anymore.
Upon its theatrical debut in 2001, critics praised Holy Day as an important artistic contribution to the controversial social project of persuading white Australians to acknowledge and reflect upon their historically tumultuous relationship with the country's Aboriginal population. Bovell received an AWGIE Award for excellence in stage writing from the Australian Writers Guild in 2002 in recognition of the literary merit of Holy Day.
Introduction: Holy Day. (Retrieved 30/11/2022 - Web). In Gale eBooks. Detroit: Gale.
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Andrew Bovell is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television.
Bovell was born on 23 November 1962 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and completed his secondary school education in Perth. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a BA and followed that with a Diploma in Dramatic Arts at the Victorian College of Arts, in Melbourne.
Andrew Bovell. (Retrieved 30/11/2022 - Web). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bovell