Noel Tovey survived a childhood of poverty, neglect and sexual abuse to become a leading light in the arts as an actor, choreographer, writer and theatre director in England and Australia. In this interview, he speaks - with extraordinary candour and grace - about his complex sense of identity and the forces and events that shaped him, including the prejudice he’s encountered as an Aboriginal and a gay man.

(2006, 26 mins) A Film Australia National Interest Program.

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