Category: Omar Musa

Griffin Theatre Company in association with Sydney Festival and Riverside Theatres present, SINCE ALI DIED, Written and Performed by Omar Musa, in the SBW Stables Theatre, Nimrod St, Darlinghurst. 8-19 January. Rapper, Poet and Award Winning Author is Omar Musa. In this memoir monologue performance he is a brown man in a black country talking to, mostly, white people, about how he has felt – feels – stigmatised as being ‘unAustralian’ for most of his life. SINCE ALI DIED is a Memoir Monologue, originating from a young man who has a Muslim Malaysian father (Borneo) and a white Australian mother…

Griffin Theatre Company presents SINCE ALI DIED, by Omar Musa. 11th – 14th April, presented as partof the Batch Festival, 11th -28 April, in the SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross. Of many things, in SINCE ALI DIED, Omar Musa reflects the influence that Muhammad Ali had on him as a child living and growing-up in Queanbeyan, a Muslim/Australian: “a brown skinned child living in a black land”,  and of his weeping at Ali’s death on the 3rd June, 2016. For, Ali was not only famous for his greatness in the Boxing Ring, or his conversion to the Muslim faith, but also…