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Issue Details: First known date: 1973... 1973 Three Plays by Alexander Buzo : Norm & Ahmed / Rooted / The Roy Murphy Show
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Notes

  • DRAMA BIB Notes: Production photos. Introduced by Katharine Brisbane. Includes glossary. Prod. details: 'Norm and Ahmed' (q.v.); 'Rooted' (first produced by Stage at the Childers Street Hall, Canberra, 14 August 1969 and professionally at the Jane Street Theatre, Sydney, on the same date. Also produced in Hartford, Connecticut, USA January, 1972 and in England in 1973); 'The Roy Murphy Show' (first produced at the Nimrod Street Theatre, Sydney, 1 July 1971). Typescripts at FL.

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Currency Methuen Drama , 1973 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Norm and Ahmed, Alex Buzo , single work drama

'A rather ocker, white Australian male encounters a well-mannered Pakistani student with revolutionary ambitions in a Sydney park at midnight. Buzo creates an image of race prejudice as a profoundly irrational force in the behaviour of ordinary Australians.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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DRAMA Other Edition Info: Reprinted - 1977.; ; Revised ed. as 'Norm & Ahmed and Other Plays' (Syd: Currency, 1993)
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