Straight from the heart: Glenn Shea gently turns our focus to the process and bravery of the team in bringing Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret to the world.
Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret is a story about hope in a world where stories about Impact rarely get spoken about and if they do are so deep in trauma that the person listening doesn’t quite understand the level of layers a human being has to live with. It is at times put into the hard basket and a band aid treatment of the issue is implied. This story takes a pound of flesh from each actor who investigates their characters journey to ultimately get to where they need to be and what they need to do … Through this rehearsal we have learnt that communication is the key and to be able to talk about the sins of the perpetrators in a society lays bare for all to see.
How brave actors are to engage in a story which may impact them from the process they participate in. How brave they are to challenge themselves to share and reveal a story that has impacted so many lives whether Indigenous or not, how brave are the creatives to build a world which shows how normal a place may be for these circumstances to happen, how brave are we to share this story night after night but how brave is the victim to share their story in the first place.
Glenn Shea
LA MAMA PRESENTS tHE STORYTELLER's Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret
From 10 March 2026
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Glenn Shea / Producer, Writer, Director, Actor
Wathaurong / Ngarrindjeri
NAIDOC Award 2020/2025 Elder / Respected Person Wathaurong Aboriginal Community / Coop. Board of Director Ilbijerri Theatre Company. Board of Director Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative. Board of Director Wathaurong Cultural Centre. NIDA Graduate.
2025 NSW Premier Literary Awards - Nick Enright Playwriting Award “Three Magpies Perched in a Tree”. 2023 Green Room Award - Best New Writing “Three Magpies Perched in a Tree” An Indigenous Trilogy. FILM Credits (Feature) - Lucky Miles – Sugar factory – Queen of Hearts – Turning April. TELEVISION Credits - Redfern Now ABC TV – East of Everything ABC TV– Wildside ABC TV. THEATRE Credits - The Birthday Party MTC – Midsummer Night’s Dream STC – The Tempest QTC/MTC – Up The Road Ilbijerri – Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolfe DTC. Researcher/Curator – History Blak Theatre 1967 – 2000 Exhibition Powerhouse Museum Sydney. Producing Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret March 2026 La Mama Theatre.