Sadness

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Event Sadness
Venue Illott Concert Chamber, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand
Umbrella Event New Zealand International Arts Festival 1994
First Date 14 March 1994
Opening Date 14 March 1994
Last Date 20 March 1994
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description One of Australia's most incisive social photographers also proves himself a fine monologist in this special theatrical experience that is both a chronicle of discovery and death, and yet a celebration of life, love and a wonderfully dry humour. In Sadness, Yang delivers a dual history of Australian identity. One in a compelling search for Chinese-Australian ancestry begun in the goldfields of North Queensland in the 1890s. The other in a moving and sometimes harrowing account of life in the 1990s, where death can seem omnipresent in the shadow of AIDS.
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Monodrama
Autobiographical
Subjects Gay
HIV/AIDS
Multicultural
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Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
William Yang Performer
William Yang Writer
Works
Text Nationality Australia
China
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information Toured from Australia. Also played Galaxy Theatre Auckland following Wellington.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme AT: MS Papers 9250-58
Event Identifier 154929
Dataset AusStage