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As the dehumanised beach buggies tear up the dunes, destroying the undergrowth, we develop an awareness of environmental degradation as well as personal violation. The invasion of Hideaway Tom and Storm Boy’s beach haven by hoons makes us reflect on our own sense of security. These themes are visited in increasingly challenging encounters. Through their steadfast relationship, lessons of loss and resilience pervade. Storm Boy finds a sense of purpose in rearing three motherless pelican chicks, in particular Mr. Fingerbone Bill becomes Storm Boy’s mentor and shares his infinite knowledge of the Coorong.Ī marketing poster for the 1976 film Storm Boy. However, in spite of their loss, broken lives and cultural differences, a friendship develops between Fingerbone Bill and Storm Boy. We feel what it is to live at the mercy of lonliness in both men we see the deep hurt of dispossession. Single parent Hideaway Tom, is trying his best to provide a home for his son in their makeshift shack on the storm-thrashed beach, while Fingerbone Bill camps illegally and alone on his people’s traditional lands. In Storm Boy the film version, we initially see the characters as displaced outsiders from mainstream society. It also catapulted the careers of several actors, including David Gulpilil, who went on to star in Rabbit Proof Fence, Crocodile Dundee and Australia. The silver screen cemented the tale of Fingerbone Bill, Storm Boy, and Hideaway Tom into Australian public consciousness and secured its position as a cherished narrative in the canon of Australian stories. In 1976, the Coorong’s distinctive landscape reached the whole country through Geoff Burton’s mesmeric cinematography in the film adaptation Storm Boy. The cover of Colin Thiele’s 1964 novel Storm Boy. Thiele’s novel was first published in 1964 and captured the spirit of an entire state by entering the school curriculum, educating generations of South Australian children on protecting their coastline through its message of conservationism. However, there is a sense of hope amidst enormous loss at the heart Colin Thiele’s story, hence its enduring legacy. The historical resilience of First Peoples still negotiating the heavy colonial footprint questions how we navigate our shared future. The themes of resilience and acceptance are also strong undercurrents in Storm Boy. The location is both alienating and compelling and as events unfold, we see our interdependence with place and with each other come into sharp focus.
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The familiar historical theme in Australian literature, one that charts the harshness of physical landscape and social isolation on the boundary, permeates Storm boy. In Storm Boy, the Coorong is also a place of refuge for Storm Boy and his father, Hideaway Tom. It’s a story about place, at times beautiful and tranquil and also wild and bleak, where the narrow mouth of The Murray River meets the Southern Ocean. Storm Boy is the beguiling story of a ten-year-old boy, living a socially isolated life with his father, on South Australia’s vulnerable coastal wetland – the Coorong. Based on Colin Thiele’s beloved book, Storm Boy comes to the Southbank Theatre stage in 2019.