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[email protected] La Mama Theatre is on traditional land of the Kulin Nation. We give our respect to the Elders of this country and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people past, present and future. We acknowledge all events take place on stolen lands and that sovereignty was never ceded. We are grateful to all our philanthropic partners and donors, advocates, volunteers, audiences, artists and our entire community as we work towards the La Mama rebuild. Thank you! La Mama is financially assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council – its arts funding and advisory body, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and the City of Melbourne through the Arts and Culture triennial funding program. MARGUERITE DURAS BRENDA PALMER savannah bay (Writer) (Madeleine) Written by Marguerite Duras Born in French Indochina, Marguerite Duras (1914- Brenda likes nothing better than trying to fathom under Directed by Laurence Strangio 1996) was one of the most significant 20th century Laurence’s direction the sometimes unfathomable literary figures in France. The author of many novels, Marguerite Duras – firstly L’Amante Anglaise, then Performed by Brenda Palmer and Annie Thorold plays, essays and screenplays, she is best known The Atlantic Man and The Lover (with Annie Thorold, Set design by Laurence Strangio outside France for her filmscript Hiroshima, mon twice!) and now Savannah Bay – and at her theatre (within the set design by Bronwyn Pringle for The Disappearing Trilogy) Amour (filmed by Alain Resnais in 1959) and her best- of choice, La Mama.