Miss Saigon,written by Westerners for a Western audience,is getting another run in Sydney and Melbourne. But this show commodifies the pain of many Vietnamese Australians.
Dai Le’s decision to wear a traditional Vietnamese dress fashioned as the Australian flag was a powerful statement for those of us who have been made to feel a conditional belonging to this country.
Labor’s ham-fisted campaign to get Kristina Keneally elected revealed a disturbing lack of understanding of the cultural complexities in Fowler.
My Canadian-Chinese husband and I went to see Opera Australia’s performance of Puccini’s Turandot. Here’s why we left after the first act.