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Thanks to the archival work of Sonja Kinnersly we know that in 1952 the BNT committee had adopted a plan of sponsoring productions by other local drama groups, and these includedRopeby the Theatre Guild, The Chiltern Hundredsa production of the Yarrandoo Players, and in June Mr G F J Dart’s group performedMy Last Duchess.
So while this production was prodcued at The Little Theatre on Camp St by BNT, it was a Yarraandoo Players Production.
An aborigine was dying of hunger under a white gum tree, in the Johage of which was the Spirit of Death, Yowee. The man died, and his spirit joined Yowee, who then lifted the tree into the sky where it has been flying ever since. The burning eyes of Yowee and the dead man are the four bright stars of the Southern Cross. The pointers to the Cross are two white cockatoos, the Mouyi, whose nests are in the dark tree. They are forever chasing the tree through the sky.
