Jack Charles v The Crown

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Fairfax Studio, St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

Following an internationally-acclaimed tour, Uncle Jack Charles returns to Australia to perform Jack Charles V The Crown as part of ILBIJERRI’s 25th anniversary.

An Australian legend, Uncle Jack Charles is a veteran actor, musician, Koori elder and activist, but for a good portion of his nearly 70 years he has also been an addict, a thief and a regular in Victoria’s prisons.

From Stolen Generation to Koori theatre in the 70s, from film sets to Her Majesty’s prisons, Jack Charles V The Crown runs the gamut of a life lived to its utmost. Charles’ unswerving optimism transforms this tale of addiction, crime and doing time into a kind of vagabond’s progress – a map of the traps of dispossession and a guide to reaching the age of grey-haired wisdom.

This fleet-footed, light-fingered one-man show is a theatrical delight and a celebration of Black Australia’s dogged refusal to give up on getting on.