Category: Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Urban Theatre Projects and Sydney Festival present, BANKSTOWN: LIVE. Urban Theatre Projects (UTP) is a theatre organisation that has been developing work – stories – from within a ‘community’, of a community, for the community, in Sydney’s south west for 30-years. BANKSTOWN: LIVE, is the latest project from this company. This work is the only event I attended, in the 2015 Sydney Festival. We caught the train to Bankstown from Bondi Junction, changing at Central, in the late afternoon, and then using our GPS on the phone, walked through Bankstown shopping, restaurant centre and out into the suburbs of Bankstown…

  Photo by Bill Reda Sydney Writer’s Festival and Sweatshop: Writing and Society Research Centre (University of Western Sydney) presents THREE JERKS, created by Michael Mohammed Ahmad at Wharf 2 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company. From the flyer to the show: It is Sydney 2000. Year of the Olympic Games. A string of gang rapes take place across the western suburbs. The perpetrators are identified as muslims, arabs, middle-easterns and westies. Their victims are identified as non-muslim aussie pigs. The crimes divide Australia. A leb, a wog and a bogan emerge. They are writers. They tell their story. They don’t care…

  MOVING PEOPLE, a production from Westside Publications, in association with the Sydney Writer’s Festival. Produced by BYDS (Bankstown Youth Development Service) at the Bankstown Arts Centre. Sometimes they come here from a war-torn country. Other times they come here from Newtown. Sometimes it’s to start a family. Other times it’s to start a fight. Sometimes they leave us for a day on the beach. Other times they leave us for another place they call home. Sometimes they come back. Sometimes they don’t. These stories are about moving in and out. These stories are moving. MOVING PEOPLE was a program…