Spy: Single Asian Female gets bawdy on stage
3 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Xana Tang and Zak Enayat as Zoe and Paul in Auckland Theatre Company s upcoming season of Single Asian Female. Photo / Sacha Stejko
Xana Tang and Zak Enayat as Zoe and Paul in Auckland Theatre Company s upcoming season of Single Asian Female. Photo / Sacha Stejko
Actors Xana Tang and Zak Enayat are set to heat up the stage in Single Asian Female later this month, at the ASB Waterfront Theatre.
After sold-out seasons over the Ditch, the Auckland Theatre Company has made a stirring, bawdy, knockout version of the Australian hit and relocated the play to Aotearoa, telling the story from a Chinese New Zealand family s perspective, moving the setting from the Gold Coast to Mount Maunganui.
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Screen Australia has announced over $730,000 of development funding for six feature films, 12 television dramas and three online projects.
The television projects include Foxtel jury drama
The Twelve, an adaptation from Bunya Productions of the 2018 film
Ladies In Black;
The Family Doctor, a television drama from Debra Oswald, co-creator of
Offspring.
There is also a project between Mark Fennessy and director Richard Lowenstein; plus director Nicholas Verso, Beck Cole and writer Mithila Gupta.
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Twenty seconds. It took all but 20 seconds for
Minari to choke me up. By the second viewing, I was a bawling, sobbing pile of emotions. And that was just from watching the trailer.
Discourse about racial representation in films can feel fatiguing. We get it; #OscarsSoWhite has been in our zeitgeist for over five years now and with the Golden Globes recent snub of
But something about
Minari feels different.
Written and directed by American-born Korean Lee Isaac Chung, this 2021 quasi-biographical story is an earnest and gritty look at Asian assimilation, unpacking what the pursuit of the American Dream really means.