The Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, also known as Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre, is an Aboriginal Australian theatre company, based in Perth, Western Australia in the heart of the Noongar Nation, a cultural group from the South West of Western Australia.
Formed in 1993, Yirra Yaakin provides the means and environment to assist the nurturing of Aboriginal community cultural development.[1][2][3][4]
Yirra Yaakin means "stand tall" in the Noongar language.[citation needed]
In 2013, Yirra Yaakin staged Bob Merritt's play The Cake Man for the first time in WA, in a collaboration with the Belvoir.[5]