Rooted
Don’t Look Away presents ROOTED by Alex Buzo in the Parade Studio, in the Parade Theatres, Kensington. Alex Buzo was an Australian artist in the vanguard of the Australian cultural ‘revolution’ of the late sixties. His play NORM AND AHMED (1968), directed by Jim Sharman for the Old Tote Theatre Company, became a sensational event, as it explored racism in the Australian context. The subsequent court cases of ‘obscenity’ around this play became a test case in the battles about censorship in this volatile youth inspired time (Whitlam’s government elected in this growing fervour, it seems), propelled Mr Buzo into…