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Two short Stage Plays Reflecting Australian Pakistani Cultural Interaction
Jul
17
Written by:
17/07/2009
“this is a revelatory new production...a fine revival of a great classic” (The Australian on N&A)
“Never
underestimate the power of difference” is the theme of playwright Alex
Buzo’s famous story about a middle-aged Aussie ‘bloke’ and a young,
articulate Muslim uni student from Pakistan. Norm
and Ahmed is
now a set text for the Higher School Certificate in NSW and its unexpected
climax gives the play new shades prophecy given the recent mistreatment of
international students at Australian universities.
Buzo’s story of racial and cultural conflict are re-ignited with the premiere
of a brand new play by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine, written
especially as a companion for Norm
and Ahmed. Her
new play Shafana
and Aunt Sarrinah is
a thoroughly 21st century story of two Australian Afghani Muslim women and the
tension within a family over the young woman’s decision to wear the headscarf.
Based on personal interviews with a large number of Muslim women from a
diversity of Muslim cultures in Sydney, the play is about the ignorance and
misunderstanding that surrounds the wearing of the traditional Muslim headscarf.
This is exciting and entertaining live theatre. It aims to ask questions,
encourage self-reflection and foster a greater respect for individual and
cultural differences. It is of vital importance to The Alex Buzo Company that
the communities represented on stage are also represented in the audience. The
company warmly invites all ethnic communities in greater Sydney to book their
tickets to see one of the performances at the Seymour Centre from 5th-29th
August
2009.
(Above:
Craig Meneaud and Laurence Coy in NORM AND AHMED)
The
Alex Buzo Company presents an evening of two short plays:
NORM
AND AHMED by
Alex Buzo
In
a double bill with the world premiere of its contemporary companion
SHAFANA
AND AUNT SARRINAH by
Alana Valentine
Director:
Aarne Neeme | Designer: Deirdre Burges | Lighting: Tony Youlden
Cast: Camilla Ah Kin, Laurence Coy, Craig Meneaud and Sheridan Harbridge.
5-29 August 2009 @ Seymour Centre, Sydney. Bookings here
Education resources for NORM AND AHMED (NSW HSC Drama text 2010-2012) here
“this
is a revelatory new production...a fine revival of a great classic”
(The
Australian on N&A)
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Two short Stage Plays Reflecting Australian Pakistani Cultural Interaction
Jul
17
Written by:
17/07/2009
“this is a revelatory new production...a fine revival of a great classic” (The Australian on N&A)
“Never
underestimate the power of difference” is the theme of playwright Alex
Buzo’s famous story about a middle-aged Aussie ‘bloke’ and a young,
articulate Muslim uni student from Pakistan. Norm
and Ahmed is
now a set text for the Higher School Certificate in NSW and its unexpected
climax gives the play new shades prophecy given the recent mistreatment of
international students at Australian universities.
Buzo’s story of racial and cultural conflict are re-ignited with the premiere
of a brand new play by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine, written
especially as a companion for Norm
and Ahmed. Her
new play Shafana
and Aunt Sarrinah is
a thoroughly 21st century story of two Australian Afghani Muslim women and the
tension within a family over the young woman’s decision to wear the headscarf.
Based on personal interviews with a large number of Muslim women from a
diversity of Muslim cultures in Sydney, the play is about the ignorance and
misunderstanding that surrounds the wearing of the traditional Muslim headscarf.
This is exciting and entertaining live theatre. It aims to ask questions,
encourage self-reflection and foster a greater respect for individual and
cultural differences. It is of vital importance to The Alex Buzo Company that
the communities represented on stage are also represented in the audience. The
company warmly invites all ethnic communities in greater Sydney to book their
tickets to see one of the performances at the Seymour Centre from 5th-29th
August
2009.
(Above:
Craig Meneaud and Laurence Coy in NORM AND AHMED)
The
Alex Buzo Company presents an evening of two short plays:
NORM
AND AHMED by
Alex Buzo
In
a double bill with the world premiere of its contemporary companion
SHAFANA
AND AUNT SARRINAH by
Alana Valentine
Director:
Aarne Neeme | Designer: Deirdre Burges | Lighting: Tony Youlden
Cast: Camilla Ah Kin, Laurence Coy, Craig Meneaud and Sheridan Harbridge.
5-29 August 2009 @ Seymour Centre, Sydney. Bookings here
Education resources for NORM AND AHMED (NSW HSC Drama text 2010-2012) here
“this
is a revelatory new production...a fine revival of a great classic”
(The
Australian on N&A)
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Two short Stage Plays Reflecting Australian Pakistani Cultural Interaction
Jul
17
Written by:
17/07/2009
“this is a revelatory new production...a fine revival of a great classic” (The Australian on N&A)
“Never
underestimate the power of difference” is the theme of playwright Alex
Buzo’s famous story about a middle-aged Aussie ‘bloke’ and a young,
articulate Muslim uni student from Pakistan. Norm
and Ahmed is
now a set text for the Higher School Certificate in NSW and its unexpected
climax gives the play new shades prophecy given the recent mistreatment of
international students at Australian universities.
Buzo’s story of racial and cultural conflict are re-ignited with the premiere
of a brand new play by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine, written
especially as a companion for Norm
and Ahmed. Her
new play Shafana
and Aunt Sarrinah is
a thoroughly 21st century story of two Australian Afghani Muslim women and the
tension within a family over the young woman’s decision to wear the headscarf.
Based on personal interviews with a large number of Muslim women from a
diversity of Muslim cultures in Sydney, the play is about the ignorance and
misunderstanding that surrounds the wearing of the traditional Muslim headscarf.
This is exciting and entertaining live theatre. It aims to ask questions,
encourage self-reflection and foster a greater respect for individual and
cultural differences. It is of vital importance to The Alex Buzo Company that
the communities represented on stage are also represented in the audience. The
company warmly invites all ethnic communities in greater Sydney to book their
tickets to see one of the performances at the Seymour Centre from 5th-29th
August
2009.
(Above:
Craig Meneaud and Laurence Coy in NORM AND AHMED)
The
Alex Buzo Company presents an evening of two short plays:
NORM
AND AHMED by
Alex Buzo
In
a double bill with the world premiere of its contemporary companion
SHAFANA
AND AUNT SARRINAH by
Alana Valentine
Director:
Aarne Neeme | Designer: Deirdre Burges | Lighting: Tony Youlden
Cast: Camilla Ah Kin, Laurence Coy, Craig Meneaud and Sheridan Harbridge.
5-29 August 2009 @ Seymour Centre, Sydney. Bookings here
Education resources for NORM AND AHMED (NSW HSC Drama text 2010-2012) here
“this
is a revelatory new production...a fine revival of a great classic”
(The
Australian on N&A)
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