Rainbow's End

• “Nice? You heard them. It’ll never change… some things never do.”
• Jane Harrison in her 2007 play “Rainbow’s End” explores the dark side of British colonialism in Australia during the 1950s.
• It presents to the audience three Aboriginal women living  in the world dominated by white people and experiencing daily racial barriers.
• Throughout the play, Harrison argues the struggles of Indigenous people who live under the control of welfare policies and inequality from white people.
• Harrison further illustrates the Aboriginal people getting stereotypes and prejudices from the whites, especially Dolly’s personal ambitions and the generational shift in hopes.
• The characters of “Rainbow’s End” each represent a different response to the pressures of British colonisation with the same aim of finding an equal possibility in achieving their dreams and aspirations.