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Commentary on the play "Stolen" It is not difficult to understand the worries of a mother whose child goes missing for a day, but how about not seeing her child for twenty-six years? That seems so far-fetched, but yet it is also an incontrovertible chapter of Australian history. From 1910 until 1970s, the Australian government carried out an assimilation policy, under which Aboriginal children, referred as the "Stolen Generation", were brutally removed from their aboriginal family and taken to children homes, awaiting to be adapted by a white family. The idea of "assimilation" sounds promising, but beneath it are hidden countless of emotionally taxing stories, families broken apart, hopeless victims put a period to their lives. Jane Harrison tasted it all, as she herself is one of the stolen children. Being a victim under the policy, she knows clearly what cruelty the policy had to offer. Therefore she wrote the play "Stolen"...

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