by Adrian Miller | Jun 19, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Wed Jun 18 Vandemonian Lags is a presentation of 17 stories from an earlier time in Australia’s history when the boats kept coming and, laden with untrustworthy convicts from Van Diemen’s Land who had in turn been transported for often petty crimes,...
by Catherine Blanch | Jun 14, 2014 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews
by Catherine Blanch. It’s no secret that Tasmania has a cruel and dark convict history. The stories of people transported from England to Van Diemen’s Land for anything from petty crime to murder, the brutality of imprisonment and the struggles that families faced...