Something pretty lovely just happened on Q&A.
Indigenous actor Kylie Farmer and fellow actor and playwright Kate Mulvany took turns reading the Bard’s Sonnet 127. The twist? Farmer read it in Noongar, with Mulvany providing the original English version.
.@farmer_kylie performs Sonnet 127 in Noongar, the indigenous language of her family in WA #QandA https://t.co/97bKu8TIIc
— ABC Q&A (@QandA) September 5, 2016
.@farmer_kylie & @Kate_Mulvany agree that Shakespeare is lobbying for the natural beauty in women #QandA https://t.co/9hd9Ta9VSb
— ABC Q&A (@QandA) September 5, 2016
What followed was a bloody fantastic discussion on how, well, progressive his words seem. We could do with more of this and fewer canned-answer politicians, tbh.
Source and photo: Q&A / Twitter.