ABOVE:
clip from The Alex Buzo Company’s production of
NORM AND AHMED
Directed by Aarne Neeme with Laurence Coy & Craig
Meneaud
Purchase a copy of Alex Buzo’s
NORM AND AHMED
from Currency Press, Australia’s performing arts
publisher.
Tune in to ABC Radio National on Sunday February 7 @ 3pm or Thursday February 11 @ 7pm to hear Alana Valentine’s radio adaptation of ‘Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah’, the play about how the hijab came between two Australian Afghani Muslim women, commissioned by The Alex Buzo Company as a companion piece to ‘Norm and Ahmed’.
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.
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
Aussietheatre.com
NORM AND AHMED
review in
October 2007
The Blurb
NORM AND AHMED review in October 2007
The Daily
Telegraph
NORM AND AHMED
review in
October 17 2007
ABC
Radio report
on the day of Alex Buzo's passing, August 16 2006 including
past interview with Buzo talking about NORM AND AHMED.
Quadrant Magazine
“Wary Asians on a theme: dramatising in the near north” by
Alex Buzo 2004
ABOVE:
ABC TV News report on the launch of the bicentenary in 2010
of Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s leadership, featuring Alex
Buzo’s
MACQUARIE.
OTHER RESOURCES
Above:
ABC News Report on the
launch
of The Alex Buzo Company in 2007
The Sydney Morning
Herald
Obituary on Alex Buzo by Bob Ellis 2006
The
Independent
Obituary on Alex Buzo by Keith Dewhurst, 2006
UNSWorld
“Memoirs of an Unswonian” April 2006
Presented by Sydney Ideas, August 10th 2009
Watch the lecture plus Emma Buzo's introduction on ABC FORA
Requiem for Alexander Buzo
Click here to read Jamie Grant’s poem published in 2009
ABC Radio National broadcasts Alana Valentine’s play
Tune in to ABC Radio National on Thursday February 11 @ 7pm or listen online anytime to Alana Valentine’s radio adaptation of ‘Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah’, the play about how the hijab came between two Australian Afghani Muslim women, commissioned by The Alex Buzo Company as a companion piece to ‘Norm and Ahmed’.
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