Asylum by Kit Lazaroo

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PLAY READING 101

Kit Lazaroo creates impossible worlds, where humans question their humanity and eggplants become human. Watching a Lazaroo play unfold is like being sucked deeper and deeper into a bizarre dream that eventually leaves you with the feeling of absolute logic.

Lally Black is a psychiatrist who struggles to keep the lid on her doubts about her own funds of compassion. Yu Siying is a Chinese woman who has caught HIV in Australia. Afraid of China’s judgement, Siying has one last chance to claim asylum, and believes Lally is the key to her appeal. Lally finds herself enticed into an imagined China, unfolding in the gulf between herself and Siying, causing her to acknowledge the threads that run between complacency and brutality.

Image from Here Theatre’s production.
Actor: Fanny Hanusin.
Set Designer: Amanda Johnson (Associate Artist at Courthouse ARTS)

Winner of the Wal Cherry Award in 2006.

Tuesday 20 December 2011 7.30pm at Courthouse ARTS

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Katherine Monotti
Janine Mclean
Georgina Capper
Ubaldino Mantelli
Ross Mueller

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