Kill the Messenger

Kill the Messenger
ISBN: 9781925005370
Publication Date: 14 February 2015

Kill the Messenger is based on a true story about a man in the author's home ;suburb of Mount Druitt. One day, in unbearable pain due to undiagnosed ;stomach cancer, he went to the local hospital, where he was refused care. ;Then he went to a nearby park and hung himself.

Then in 2012 Nakkiah's ;grandmother fell through the unmended floor of her public housing home and ;died. Nakkiah found herself at the centre of a story about... institutionalised ;racism. The resulting play lays it all out-her dodgy sex life, a dead man's second ;chance, and a granddaughter's sense of duty.

About the Author

Nakkiah Lui is a writer/actor and Gamilaroi/Torres Strait Islander woman. She co-writes/stars in Black Comedy on ABC TV. After winning Belvoir St Theatre's Balnaves Indigenous playwright award for Kill The Messenger, she was Playwright in Residence from 2012 - 2014. Her play, Black is the New White premiered at Sydney Theatre Company in 2017. She made her directorial debut with An Octoroon as part of Brisbane Festival 2017. Nakkiah has contributed to The Guardian and Junkee and has appeared on Q&A and The Drum on ABC.