Black Diggers (), written by Tom Wright, directed by Wesley Enoch, and produced by the Queensland Theatre Company, received its world première at the 2014 Sydney Festival in January. Then, the full clamour of Australia’s more than $400 million centennial commemorations of World War I was not yet audible; by the time the play reached Adelaide in March 2015 – a few weeks shy of the centenary of the doomed Allied landings at Gallipoli – the noise was deafening. Amidst the generally bellicose reverence and formal and political conservatism of commemorative offerings from almost all of the country’s major performing arts companies, Black Diggers held in its unambiguous name the promise of a fresh perspective on a national myth whose cultural expressions, for all their economic and social investment, can seem remarkably homogenous.