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'Sex and the millennial city
'Natalie Yang has just published her memoir, Banana Girl, a sexually explicit look at life as a twenty-something woman in millennial Australia. It isn’t the heart-warming migrant story that people expected. Nor is it a feminist call to arms. And it certainly isn’t on the best-seller lists.
'Going Down is the first full-length play for STC by Michele Lee, winner of the 2016 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award for her play Rice.
'Co-produced with Malthouse Theatre, it’s a brutally funny and frank examination of flawed characters failing at life in the most outrageous ways possible.
'Natalie, for one, has washed up on the shores of anonymity. But she isn’t going to wallow in existential crisis, she’s going to double down. Her next book, 100 Cocks in 100 Nights, could be the scandalous reboot her career needs. Or it could be a complete disaster. Only when she hits rock bottom will she find a way back up.
'"Look, let’s not talk about the Mekong. We’re all women here. Let’s talk about the female gaze. On sex. That’s my life. That’s what I write about." Natalie'
Source: STC.
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Green Room Awards:
- Catherine Davies (performer): nominated.
- Ensemble: nominated.
- Costume design: nominated.
Production Details
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World premiere, Sydney Theatre Company (Wharf 2 Theatre, 23 March to 5 May 2018).
Director: Leticia Cáceres
Lighting Designer: Sian James-Holland
Composer & Sound Designer: The Sweats
Cast: Catherine Davies, Josh Price, Naomi Rukavina, Jenny Wu
Subsequently presented at Malthouse Theatre, 10 May to 3 June 2018, with the same cast and crew.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Michele Lee's New Play Going Down Looks to Explode the Traditional Migrant Narrative
2018
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , March 2018;'Going Down, premiering at the Sydney Theatre Company this month, is the tale of a young woman who is trying to tell her story honestly, failing miserably and getting very confused along the way.' (Introduction)
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Going Down Finds Hilarious Satire in Migrant Identity
2018
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 14 May 2018;'Going Down is a vibrant, layered comic exploration of stereotypes, from piccolo-quaffing urban Melbournites to migrant memoirists from ethnic minorities.' (Introduction)
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Going Down Finds Hilarious Satire in Migrant Identity
2018
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 14 May 2018;'Going Down is a vibrant, layered comic exploration of stereotypes, from piccolo-quaffing urban Melbournites to migrant memoirists from ethnic minorities.' (Introduction)
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Michele Lee's New Play Going Down Looks to Explode the Traditional Migrant Narrative
2018
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , March 2018;'Going Down, premiering at the Sydney Theatre Company this month, is the tale of a young woman who is trying to tell her story honestly, failing miserably and getting very confused along the way.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2019 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Drama
- 2019 nominated AWGIE Awards — Stage Award
- 2019 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards — Direction : Theatre - Companies
- 2019 nominated Victorian Green Room Awards — Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
- 2019 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting