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Honey Spot is a play about the power of friendship to bring worlds and cultures together. First staged in Western Australia in 1985 during the emerging movement supporting white Australia's reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it presents an optimistic, funny and moving story about surmounting racial differences and prejudices.

One of playwright and Indigenous rights campaigner Jack Davis’s most celebrated theatrical works, Honey Spot was given new life in 2012 by the highly acclaimed Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company.

A young girl makes friends with the new boy at school. Peggy is a budding dancer and daughter of the local forest ranger. Tim lives in a forestry-owned house and dances to the rhythm of his cousin’s didgeridoo. As their friendship grows, Tim agrees to help Peggy create a dance piece for the ballet scholarship competition – together, they blend the earthy feel of traditional Noongar dance and the fluid grace of classical ballet.