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Samson

Photo by Lisa Tomasetti Belvoir and La Boite Theatre Company present, SAMSON, by Julia-Rose Lewis, in the Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills. 7May – 31 May. SAMSON, is a new Australian play, by Julia-Rose Lewis. It is a first play and was ‘read’ at the National Play Festival, presented by Playwriting Australia, at Carriageworks, in June 2014. I felt that there has been some further development of the text since last year, when I first saw it. The play tells of four young Australians, living in ‘an edge suburb of Australia’, on the cusp of adulthood, and facing all of…

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The Trouble with Asian Men

  Australian Festival Of South Asian Arts, PARRAMASALA, present Tamasha’s THE TROUBLE WITH ASIAN MEN, created by Sudha Bhuchar, Kristine Landon-Smith and Louise Wallinger at Jubilee Hall, the Town Hall, Parramatta. UK theatre company Tamasha bring their critically acclaimed smash hit THE TROUBLE WITH ASIAN MEN to Parramasala. Taken from verbatim interviews from UK men, this hilarious, insightful piece looks behind closed doors to reveal the real Asian male experience. Are they mummy’s boys or macho men? Powerbrokers or metrosexuals? All will be revealed… So, says the blurb in the Parramasala 2012 Festival Guide. Beware. The title of this play…

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