Indigenous musical The Sunshine Club, a tribute to Brisbane's postwar dance halls, returns to Queensland Theatre - ABC News

The Sunshine Club celebrates the postwar equivalent of social media for Indigenous people, says writer and director Wesley Enoch: “The only way you got the gossip, or you met new people, or you got to exchange knowledge.”

A typical night at a dance hall of 1950s Meanjin (Brisbane) would start with a three-piece band playing songs for the Elders. Hosted in The Boathouse by the river, they were multi-generational events… [+12119 chars]

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