A Western Sydney playwright revisits his regional roots

23/07/2024 54 min
A Western Sydney playwright revisits his regional roots

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Australian writer James Elazzi has garnered acclaim for his frank and funny plays that dramatise the lives of Lebanese Australians. He has been nominated for a slew of awards in his young career, including this year's Martin-Lysicrates Prize. His sixth play, Karim, is coming to Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta.Also, a city-wide lockdown indefinitely confines two people on a blind date from hell to the same apartment in Van Badham's razor-sharp musical comedy, The Questions, which is coming to the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and how does one go about adapting one of the most famous plays of all time, Hamlet, into an opera?