First impressions

The first thing that was striking about the play is the simplicity of its fantastic elements: three boys from three different times meeting in the present at one place which connects them through time: The Dreamer's Rock. Other surrealistic elements are the shaking, falling to the ground and switching languages. To me, these incidents seemed confusing, maybe even a little ridiculous at first reading.
But the idea of letting three 16-year old boys from three different periods of time meet at the same place and talk about their problems, their lives and their culture is a simple but brilliant idea to   get the topic of being an adolescent and having aboriginal roots across.

The play is extremely suitable for a reading in the foreign language classroom for secondary school learners of English because of several reasons: The play as a litarary genre is very appropriate for the learners; it is not too long, contains a lot of humor and the language level is ok, especially because of the footnotes. The language contains expressions which you wouldn't find in a school book, so they are very close to actual language use.

The most important thing what makes it interesting is the age of the protagonists who are all sixteen and the intercultural and historical topics which are embedded in the story. Although all boys come from a totally different time and thus differ in their way of life, their seems to be a deep connection between them: They all deal with issues like girls an cultural identity, they have native roots and they all have a special bond to the place where they meet, the Dreamer's Rock.
This shows that certain issues are independent of space and time, even of culture; they are universal and cross-cultural. This message is important for teens and certainly gives them the opportunity to identify with the chracters.