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RESOURCES: Alex Buzo’s play 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

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Purchase a copy of Alex Buzo’s NORM AND AHMED from Currency Press, Australia’s performing arts publisher.

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Read Triumph of censor's target, a feature by Graeme Blundell in The Australian newspaper about NORM AND AHMED's past, present and future, July 2009.

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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

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RESOURCES: Alex Buzo’s play 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.

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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 pllay MACQUARIE, the first play ever published by Currency Press, Australia’s performing arts publisher.


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OTHER RESOURCES


Above: ABC News Report on the launch of The Alex Buzo Company in 2007

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Purchase ABC TV program "Remembering Alex Buzo" presented by Virginia Trioli and featuring interviews with Alex Buzo, Wayne Harrison, Graeme Blundell, Bob Ellis and Sandy Gore.


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

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2009 ALEX BUZO MEMORIAL LECTURE: CAPTIVATED BY REALITY by Alana Valentine
Presented by S
ydney Ideas, August 10th 2009
Watch the lecture plus Emma Buzo's introduction on
ABC FORA

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Requiem for Alexander Buzo
Click here to read Jamie Grant’s poem published in 2009

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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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GO TO BUZO ED THE ALEX BUZO COMPANY’S EDUCATION PROGRAM