'this is an incredible play: engrossing and exhausting and confronting.'
(Australian Stage Online)
Alex Buzo’s 1968 watershed Australian play ‘Norm and Ahmed’ is currently on the NSW HSC Drama Course Prescriptions 2019-2024 for the core component 'Australian Drama and Theatre'.
The play was recently filmed by Australian Theatre Live and is available online in 2022.
A selection of print/audio resources for students and teachers can be found here.
Above: Channel 7 news report on the play and its place in Australia's cultural history.
ABOVE: excerpt from The Alex Buzo Company’s production directed by Aarne Neeme with Laurence Coy & Craig Meneaud
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.
The links below may also be of interest:
- 'Not in Print', a podcast produced by Currency Press about 'Norm and Ahmed' and its cultural significance in Australia and beyond
- Interview with actor Laurence Coy on 'Norm and Ahmed', 2021
- National Library of Australia interview with Alex Buzo referencing 'Norm and Ahmed'
- The Failed Nationalism of Alex Buzo: a response to Norm and Ahmed by Stephen Sewell, 2015
- Max Gillies and John McCallum's post-performance discussion as part of 'Enter the New Wave'
- ABC Radio Sydney interview with Emma Buzo, Laurence Coy and Craig Meneaud featuring a live excerpt of the play, 2010
- ABC Radio Sydney review of 'Norm and Ahmed' double bill, 2009
- Australian Stage Online review of 'Norm and Ahmed' double bill, 2009
- The Sunday Telegraph 'The power of Buzo inspires Valentine', 2009
- Australian Stage Online production review, 2007
- Remembering Alex Buzo ABC TV program, 2006
- ABC Radio report on the day of Buzo's passing, August 16 2006 incl. Buzo talking about the play
- Wary Asians on a theme: dramatising in the near north article by Alex Buzo in Quadrant Magazine, 2004
