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Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, have incorporated song and dance into their play //The Seven Stages of Grieving.// Enoch and Mailman include traditonal performance within //Seven Stages// to present the recognisable image of Indigenous performance.The scene, //Black Skin Girl//, is a good example of the use of monologue in //The// //Seven Stages of Grieving// as it incoporates technical forms of theatre including a projection piece and effective use of language. The monologue highlights the dramatic element of the play and evokes a sense of culture/heritage to the audience. This scene also uses song and dance to highlight the innocense in the character, the dance in this scene being of a childlike nature. The song in the scene //Black Skin Girl//, presents the audience with traditional Aboriginal language, creating an engaged interest in the audience. An audience, being majority of a caucasian heritage wouldn't understand traditional indigenous language, with the repetition of the words "bului yuli mie, naia gigi warunguldul", this would evoke interest in many viewers unaware of the words being spoken by the //Everywoman// character. However, the dance is not of a cultural background or descent, it is a childlike style of dancing. Through the use of her dance in a childlike framework, it allows the viewers to see the incorporation of another culture into the characters aboriginality. As a child we can relate to her experience of innocence The letter '//Z'// is imprinted on her bare chest, exposing a white/caucasian influence on the character, as the letter '//Z'// is from an english/white causcasian background, being a letter in the english Alphabet today.