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An exploration of migration conundrums
SIMON PARSONS recommends an award-winning production of rare simplicity, graceful beauty and profound significance about Sri Lankan immigrants to Australia
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PATRICK JONES recommends a vital anthology from Afghan and Iranian poets where the political and personal fuse into witness-bearing and manifesto-making
WILL STONE is impressed by Hania Rani who is already making a name for herself in the male-dominated world of modern classical music
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
WILL STONE appreciates an artist who can swerve from industrial noise to clubby trance pop without missing a step
Counting and Cracking
Birmingham Rep
FRESH from the Edinburgh Festival and bearing plaudits and awards from its homeland, this multinational production from Australia is a tale of reconnecting with one’s roots however painful and traumatic they may be.
Focusing largely but not exclusively on Sri Lankan immigrants to Australia, this sweeping epic spans three generations from 1956 post-colonial Ceylon and the rise to dominance of the Sinhalese community through the 1970s Tamil Tigers’ insurgence and the wave of suffering and forced migration that ensued up to 2004 and a first-generation Australian youngster alienated from his family’s history, language and culture.
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