Nyuntu Ngali is a new theatre work emerging as a legacy to the Ngapartji Ngapartji project and co-produced by Windmill Performing Arts - who have had a three year working relationship with the Pitjantjatjara community at Mimili.  The work has been inspired and informed by a series of community workshops and trips run throughout 2009.

Younger and senior members of the Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara community have been invited to consult on the development and performance and take part in workshops over the year. One talented young performer, Jennifer Wells of Ernabella joins the cast as musician and shadow-maker for the Adelaide 2009 season after developing her musical skills through Big hART workshops. Workshops have included music recording, song-writing, film-making, intrument building, story-recording, multi-generational trips to sacred-sites of relevance to the story and dance and have taken place in Ernabella and Mimili.

Nyuntu Ngali’ which translates as ‘You, we two’ will be an intricate examination of traditional Central Australian survival methods through the framework of a post-apocalyptic love story which examines themes of climate-change, endurance, culture and dependence.

It is the 22nd century in central Australia. Everyday life is basic in this future world. The post climate change environment demands that skills for living return to the way they were for thousands of years before that fast-paced period of just 10 generations, which resulted in global warming and the near destruction of the planet.
Eva and Roam have fallen in love and they face a life and death predicament as they run from an unseen enemy, because of their wrong-skin marriage.This moving and powerful story of survival in both English and Pitjantjatjara is interspersed with sand storytelling, choreography, video art, shadow play, weaving and a highly atmospheric musical score.

Come and see the show in Adelaide 26th September - 3rd October 2009. Adelaide Festival Centre site.