AustLit

'She’s not normal, why can’t she be normal, she makes me feel really uncomfortable…An empowering collection of poetry from bestselling Cypriot-Australian poet Koraly Dimitriadis, for people who are not normal.'  (Publication summary)

'I was minding my own business – having a lovely day, doing my house chores, looking after my child, writing – when, after sharing on Facebook a podcast of an interview I did with Carmen Main on 3CR Spoken Word, I received a Facebook notification.'  (Introduction)

'In a large, white-picket dream, a married mother selfishly cries. She has everything she ever wanted – a husband, a house, a business degree, a baby – she is at the pinnacle of the migrant dream. Perhaps she needs to return to her medication, the pills she stopped taking to become pregnant. She was taking them for six years. She wasn’t allowed to move out of home so she married at twenty-two. Now she is thirty, and it’s as if she is looking at her life for the very first time. She is starting to see things. The creativity she had kept buried inside all her life birthed out with her daughter, and now her words are taking on a life of their own.'  (Publication summary)

Voula has recently been diagnosed with motor neurone disease. A Greek mother of two children, she stubbornly insists on continuing on as she did before, cooking and working. A bad fall at work costs her her job; she takes offense at one of her relatives bringing her food, declaring that she can cook for herself. Meanwhile, the family has no success in finding Iplex, an experimental drug that was patented and kept off the market.

After another bad fall, Voula is wheelchair-bound, dependent on her family to care for her. She feels that she is dying, and asks her daughter to make Voula's famous cherry flan, and drifts off as she waits for it.

'Following on from her sell-out La Mama Exploration, Good Greek Girl, opinion writer and author of the bestseller for poetry, Love and Fk Poems, Koraly Dimitriadis, makes her much anticipated theatre debut.

Koraly spent most of her life just doing what she was supposed to. But now she is starting to speak. She’s not sure if she should though. It always comes out wrong…

A one-woman poetic play about the struggle of women to find and accept their womanhood in the face of societal expectations. It is a story of love, family, culture, and the pressure to conform in the face of one’s true self.' (La Mama)