Stolen by jane harrison

“Stolen” is a play which outlines the physical, emotional and mental results that occurred when aboriginal children were taken from their biological families.

The play revolves around five main characters own personal experiences from the time they were obtained by welfare, and how this particular change affected them in the future. Each character has a different story to tell, yet all have a certain amount of pain attached to them. Anger, abuse and violence are some of the themes which are present in the novel. It becomes quite obvious that as the novel progresses, the children who were “coloured” had no rights at all, this evidently resulted in small lives full of confusion and pain.

Women who were of aboriginal blood found themselves in a vulnerable position when it came to rape, these women would do anything to stop the white men from raping them, even putting sand into their genitals in the hope that men would lose any sexual urges. Ruby was also subject to sexual ab...