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Staging Asylum: Contemporary Australian Plays about Refugees

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'While the theatre stands up for the despised, Australian culture and decency are not yet dead.' - Thomas Keneally

The first of its kind, this timely anthology brings together six contemporary Australian plays that offer a range of narratives and perspectives on asylum seekers. A vexed issue within the Australian community - particularly among politicians, who often use asylum seekers to further their own ends - this collection contributes to Australia's ongoing discourse on unauthorised asylum seekers, immigration detention, border control and the right to belong.

This eclectic collection includes:

CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident)
by Version 1.0

A smart, ironic verbatim work that deals with the Children Overboard Affair and the SIEV X disaster.

Also published in Remixing Politics


The Rainbow Dark
by Victoria Carless

A surreal domestic satire about immigration detention.


The Pacific Solution
by Ben Eltham

Which takes armchair cricket commentary as a point of departure for a farce about the Howard government's excision of migration territory.


Halal-el-Mashakel
by Linda Jaivin

Which looks at the friendship between two detained asylum seekers.


Journey of Asylum - Waiting
devised by Catherine Simmonds

A series of vignettes based upon the personal experiences of asylum seekers and refugees living in Melbourne.


Nothing But Nothing
by Towfiq Al-Qady

An autobiographical play about childhood and war.


With a main Introduction as well as separate introductions to each play by Editor and Drama Lecturer Dr Emma Cox, Staging Asylum recognises the crucial role that theatre has played - and continues to play - in one of Australia's most hotly debated and urgent contemporary issues.

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CHRIS RAJA REVIEWS STAGING ASYLUM EDITED BY EMMA COX

CHRIS RAJA, MASCARA LITERARY REVIEW, 4 APRIL 2015

"All in all, this is a unique, important anthology that contributes to Australia’s ongoing discourse on unauthorized asylum seekers, immigration detention centres, border control and the right to belong. This book, with its agenda of art and social change, transcends didacticism and with such vibrancy."

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