7 Stages Of Grieving Play Analysis

The Seven Stages of Grieving co-written by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman is an emotionally powerful play about the grief of Indigenous people and the hope of reconciliation. It is presented a series of theatrical episodes that follow the journey of an Aboriginal woman. The contemporary play shares true and personal stories and focuses on the issues that separate and unite Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. This play uses many techniques and conventions to convey the problems raised, and I believe every group performance used these techniques to their advantage to create an inspiring and reflective piece.

The first group, We’re not fighting, we’re grieving (WNFWG) used many elements of drama to enhance their performance. Their first piece, Photography Stories was based around family connection and how life is so easily forgotten when the photos that once hang proudly on the wall get put away to make space for others. How memories get lost once a person is decease. I felt that the group did an amazing job at conveying the emotions throughout this piece. The photographs became a symbol of loss and death. Every time one was put in the suitcases, the audience watched a connection with family being broken because we had just watched the their characters story. While observing the characters life; being born and growing up the audience form a connection because their can relate. The group
I believe each group managed to send a clear message to the audience about loss and grieving but still keeping our own characteristics and personality into the play to make it our own. Every group used a wide range of techniques and conventions to help inform the audience of the themes and issues focused on in the play and created powerful adaptions of already told