Stage Drama - Jack Davis' play No Sugar

... ENGLISH ASSESSMENT- PART 2 STAGE DRAMA by Travis Franse In life, it is often through unrelated or opposing opinions that meaning is discovered. It is through diametric opposition that understanding may be gained by forcing people into a reappraisal of their attitudes and values. Jack Davis utilises these dual opposites in his play No Sugar. Set during the Great Depression of 1929, this piece of realistic fiction comments on the treatment of Aboriginal people in rural Western Australia. He manipulates his audience to see past race relations, and into the lives of a close Aboriginal family, displaced from their homes and their traditional lives. By creating an ironic dialect of humour and suffering within his unquestionably dramatic style, Davis enforces a personal sympathy and understanding from the audience. The point on which the entire play operates is the difference in cultural understanding between colonial audiences and Aboriginal characters. Jack Davis manipulates this

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