LOGAN ST

About the show

Written and directed by Adelaide Festival sensation Jacob Boehme (Guuranda), a Narungga and Kaurna man, Logan St weaves elements of family history into a tapestry of touching human connection with unforgettable performances from Alexis West and Ali Ammouchi. Goolie (Ammouchi), a 60-year-old Afghan cameleer, meets Dulcie (West), a young First Nations woman, after she helps herself to one of the pomegranates growing in his garden, in the backyard of an Adelaide mosque. It’s 1941 and a friendship blossoms that will endure for decades. They swap recipes and cook together, as delicious aromas waft through the theatre, while Goolie is appalled to learn that Dulcie must suppress her identity to live independently. Adelaide’s Logan St was known as ‘Little Beirut’ in the 1940s, and Boehme's stage play invites audiences into the neighbourhood’s kitchens – central spaces for culture, community and storytelling. Beautifully designed video elements take us even further back, to Kangaroo Island in 1836, where a Kaurna girl has been abducted by sealers.