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The play explores the marginalisation of [[Aboriginal Australians]] in the 1920s and 1930s in Australia under the jurisdiction of a white government. The pivotal themes in the play include [[racism in Australia|racism]], white empowerment and superiority, Aboriginal disempowerment, the materialistic values held by the white Australians, Aboriginal dependency on their colonisers, and the value of family held by Aboriginal people.
The play was first performed by the Playhouse Company in association with the [[Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust|Australian Theatre Trust]], for the [[Festival of Perth]] on 18 February 1985. It also was chosen as a contribution to [[Expo 86]] in Canada<ref>[Jack Davis - No Sugar to be Australia's official contribution at Expo 86] Bulletin (Sydney, N.S.W.:1880) 22 April 1986, p.94</ref><ref>[Jack Davis - play 'No Sugar' to open in Canada, details of play.] The West Australian, 1 May 1986, p.16</ref> ''No Sugar'' forms the first part of a trilogy, the First Born Trilogy, which also includes the titles [[The Dreamers (play)|''The Dreamers'']] and ''Barungin (Smell the Wind)''. The trilogy was first performed by the [[Melbourne Theatre Company]] in May 1988 at the [[Fitzroy Town Hall]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/3425|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2016-07-17}}</ref> The play won the 1987 [[Western Australian Premier's Book Awards|Western Australian Premiers Award]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianplays.org/award/western-australian-premiers-award.html |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20100623020700/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/120606/20100623-1207/australianplays.org/award/western-australian-premiers-award.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-06-23 |title=
The play utilises the perambulant model, which is a technique used in drama to dislocate the audience involving multiple points of focus. Throughout ''No Sugar'' it is employed to convey a sense of displacement to the audience, representative of the isolation felt by the Aboriginal people unable and unwilling to assimilate to white culture.
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