For children growing up in the 1960s, like Geoff Kelso, the history of WA was taught from a short book largely dismissive of any meaningful Aboriginal presence.

For Kelton Pell, the name of his old school in Cloverdale - Whiteside - said it all about the attitudes of the time.

Kelso, Pell and the four other actors in this largely improvised history play break out of their characters, circa 1834, to reveal glaring contemporary gaps in our collective knowledge of indigenous history.

Sam Longley, for instance, can rattle off the a dozen Native American tribes, thanks to a diet of American TV, but he must call on the audience to help him with Australian names.

Kelso, Pell and Phil Thomson - the trio who co-devised the show in the early 1990s with the late Trevor Parfitt -perform in exuberant fashion alongside Longley, Franklin Nannup and Isaac Drandic. Much of the comedy is teased out from snippets gleaned from the audience so that the play, in true improvisational style, can be quite different each night.

The fundamentals of the story, though, are the same as the actors move back and forth in time between the actions of Governor James Stirling to a contemporary hip-hopper's emerging awareness of his Nyoongar legacy.

Heartfelt and hearty all at once, Bindjareb Pinjarra has many wonderful moments ranging from a Nyoongar hunting party's poignant first encounter with a settler's fenced land to a present-day motorcycle cop's antics with a boomerang standing in as his handlebars.

Most effective vehicle for black-white reconciliation you’ll ever see – Courier Mail

Brilliant performances…a wonderful fusion of the comic with the tragic 

Sydney Morning Herald

Powerful and moving…delicious satire - The West Australian

Its great strength is the depth of story and quality of the tale tellers... their ability to take us deep inside the other and find the familiar self beyond stereotype. - Realtime Magazine

Running Time: 1 hour & 40 minute including interval

Coarse language

Suitable for 12 years upward