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Writer: Gabriel Faatau’uu-Satiu
Director: Nigel Turner-Carroll
Lighting: Andrew Potvin
Production Manager: Andrew Potvin
The line that connects us all.
Developed through the National Theatre of Parramatta’s acclaimed True West program, The Western Line is a major new Australian work by Tusitala and People Weaver, Gabriel Faatau’uu-Satiu. The play follows a man travelling from Circular Quay to Western Sydney, tracing a journey that is deeply personal and connected to his ancestors.
As he travels west, the railway becomes a map of another kind. The stations, tracks and rhythms of the train sit alongside the stars, the ocean, his pe’a and the stories of his ancestors. Along the way, he encounters fellow travellers whose lives offer moments of recognition, refuge and perspective as he tries to make sense of his own.
Through these connections, the play explores what it means to live as a Pacific person in diaspora, and how culture continues to shape us when we are far from our ancestral home. The journey moves through questions of family, migration, identity, language, culture and belonging. It considers what is inherited when our families cross oceans, what we choose to carry forward, and what happens when the place we call home is no longer the place our ancestors called home.
Grounded in Western Sydney and told through a distinctly Sāmoan perspective, The Western Line is a story about finding direction, remembering where we come from and learning how to carry home with us. It asks how we find our way when we are living between the maps of our ancestors and the maps of our everyday lives.
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ACCESSIBILITY
In English.
Wheelchair accessible.
Companion Card accepted.
Assistive Hearing system available (FM).
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