The Uncle from Australia

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Event The Uncle from Australia
Venue Sidetrack Theatre, Marrickville, NSW
First Date 22 March 2001
Opening Date 22 March 2001
Last Date 21 April 2001
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description "This is the second play of Theo Patrikareas's trilogy on Greek migration to Australia. The first play of the trilogy, The Promised Woman was produced by Sidetrack in 2000/1. The Promised Woman told of a recent migrant importing a woman from Greece to be his bride. The Uncle From Australia in a four-act farce structure, is almost its mirror image. Jimmy has been in Australia 35 years, he is selling his business to return to his home village and family. He may be after a bride but he also wants to kneel at his mothers's grave - and to tell the relatives tales of his endless hard work in Australia... Yet Jimmy has done well, his stash of $50,000 is a fortune in drachma and he's worried his relatives, always on the look out for a rich returning prodigal son, will beg, borrow or scam the lot. His solution (and herin lies the classic farce structure) is to pass as poor. And so to Greece where the last 3 acts of this wonderful comic fable explore a different type of cultural collision - between those who stayed and those who escaped to follow a dream.... the skill in narrative consruction and the wit of the satire is unblunted despite being 37 years old."
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Farce
Subjects Greeks
Migrants
Multicultural
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Alex Blias Actor
Grant Galea Actor
Adam Hatzimanolis Actor
Rebecca Kypri Actor
Panda Likoudis Actor
Nicholas Mitsakis Actor
Fontini Papadopoulos Actor
Costa Pinakis Actor
Sarah Vassallo Actor
Don Mamouney Designer
Don Mamouney Director
Theo Patrikareas Playwright
Ian Bowie Production Manager
Don Mamouney Sound Designer
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information This was the premiere of the English version of The Uncle From Australia. It is the second part of a trilogy of migration plays by Theo Patrikareas. The first part of the trilogy is called The Promised Woman' which was produced by Sidetrack in 2000/1
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper SMH Metro - 16/03/2001
Sidetrack Archive Box 24
Event Identifier 7214
Dataset AusStage