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1 Let Me Know When You Get Home Miranda Aguilar , 2020 single work drama

'Val, a Filipina teenage, is desperate to escape the purgatory period between high school and university so she can finally be seen as an adult. She makes a break from her religious, overbearing mother and childhood best friend, then sets out to the city in search of the queer community she lacks back home in Fairfield. When she joins a Mardi Gras parade group and meets Prince, an enigmatic, older artist, Val is sure she has finally found her utopia – even if it means leaving her best friend, Thi, behind. But where do you turn when it turns out no place fits?

'Let Me Know When You Get Home is a new, coming-of-age Australian play, deconstructing the myth of needing to “escape” Western Sydney. It draws from personal experience with suburban isolation and Filipino diasporic identity to create a work which explores the inner lives of isolated people and the discomfort that exists when no place fits. Let Me Know When You Get Home is a personal narrative on birth and chosen families, friendships and first loves, and ultimately, the universal desire to make a home in other people.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 But Is It Authentic? Miranda Aguilar , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Pencilled In , no. 3 2018; (p. 6-9)
1 A Useless Gesture i "There is a bird lying in the sidewalk", Miranda Aguilar , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Page Seventeen , no. 9 2011; (p. 145-146)
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