Black Mary & Gunjies: Two Plays

by Julie Janson

Black Mary tells the story of Aboriginal bushranger Mary Ann and her partner, Captain Thunderbolt, roaming northwestern New South Wales in the mid-19th century. Gunjies combines family life, young love, a football match, and a debutante ball, with political activism, racial discrimination, and uneasy relations with police (the gunjies).

68 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Julie is a Burruberongal woman of Darug Aboriginal Nation. She is co-recipient of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize, 2016 and winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, 2019.