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Following are resources on Buzo’s plays
NORM AND AHMED and MACQUARIE plus the work of Alex Buzo and Australian Theatre. Click here to go to the BUZO ED main page.


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RESOURCES: Alex Buzo’s NORM AND AHMED


ABOVE: clip from The Alex Buzo Company’s production of NORM AND AHMED Directed by Aarne Neeme with Laurence Coy & Craig Meneaud

Above: a recent Channel 7 news report on NORM AND AHMED and its special place in Australia's cultural history.


ABOVE: footage from an ABC TV 'Talking Heads' episode on Graeme Blundell who produced Norm and Ahmed in 1970 including footage of the play being done for a magistrate and his court. More information in The Naked Truth.

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2010 Education Notes for NORM AND AHMED
including an overviews of the play in the words of Alex Buzo and suggested classroom activities devised by the BUZO ED team.

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Triumph of censor's target an article by Graeme Blundell
in The Australian newspaper chronicling NORM AND AHMED's past, present and future, July 2009.

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702 ABC Sydney interview Click here to listen to Deb Cameron’s with Emma Buzo, Laurence Coy and Craig Meneaud featuring a live excerpt of the play, June 2010.

ABC Radio 702 Sydney Review of NORM & AHMED + SHAFANA & AUNT SARRINAH August 2009
The Australian NORM AND AHMED plus SHAFANA AND AUNT SARRINAH review August 2009
Australian Stage Online NORM AND AHMED plus SHAFANA AND AUNT SARRINAH review August 2009
Stagenoise Review of NORM & AHMED + SHAFANA & AUNT SARRINAH August 2009
The Sunday Telegraph "The power of Buzo inspires Valentine", July 26 2009
SAM "The play's the thing" by Alana Valentine, University of Sydney Alumni Magazine, July 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald "Holding a mirror to an Australian classic" August 2009
The Sydney Morning HeraldNORM AND AHMED review October 2007
The Australian NORM AND AHMED review in October 2007
Australian Stage Online NORM AND AHMED review October 2007
The Daily Telegraph NORM AND AHMED review in October 17 2007
702 ABC Sydney interview by Virginia Trioli with Emma Buzo on the work of Alex Buzo, 2007
ABC Radio report on the day of Buzo's passing, August 16 2006 incl. Buzo talking about N&A.
Wary Asians on a theme: dramatising in the near northarticle by Alex Buzo in Quadrant Magazine, 2004
National Library Interview an excerpt the transcription referencing NORM AND AHMED 2001
Norm in the Wars an excerpt from Buzo’s book ‘Yound Person’s Guide to the Theatre’ 1988
Chez Taboo an excerpt from Buzo's book 'Yound Person's Guide to the Theatre' 1988

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RESOURCES: Alex Buzo’s MACQUARIE


ABOVE: ABC TV News report on the launch of the bicentenary in 2010 of Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s leadership, featuring Alex Buzo’s MACQUARIE.


Above: Current NSW Governor Professor Marie Bashir gives her 2009 Australia Day address on Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

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A twist on state’s throne of power
‘As society changes, so too must the play. I hope we are channelling Buzo’s spirit in the new, contemporary scenes’ Read an Interview with Wayne Harrison and Emma Buzo about the exciting challenges of reinventing Alex Buzo’s ‘Macquarie’ in The Sydney Morning Herald, July 13 2010
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’It’s all about improving the world by improving the people within it’
Read an article by David Levell about Buzo’s ‘Macquarie’ in the July 2010 edition of ‘The Australian Way’.

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Listen to ’The Power Couple of 1810’ featuring Grace Karskens talking about the exciting story of Governor and Mrs Macquarie on Richard Glover’s program on ABC 702 Sydney, March 17 2010.

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Read more about Governor and Mrs Macquarie’s enduring legacy on the official Macquarie 2010 Bicentenary website created by the NSW Government.

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Purchase a copy of Alex Buzo’s play MACQUARIE, the first play ever published by Currency Press, Australia’s performing arts publisher.



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Further resources including articles, interviews and video clips on the work of Alex Buzo and Australian Theatre in the Media Gallery