BUZO ED - RESOURCESFollowing are resources on Buzo’s plays NORM AND AHMED and MACQUARIE plus the work of Alex Buzo and Australian Theatre. Click here to go to the BUZO ED main page.
Buzo’s ‘Norm and Ahmed’ featured in ABC Radio National’s series documenting some of the most significant theatre works in Australia’s history. Click here to listen to the program featuring interviews with Currency Press founder Katharine Brisbane, Theatre critic and author of ‘Belonging’ John McCallum, Alex Buzo Company founder Emma Buzo and playwright Alana Valentine.
ABOVE:
clip from The Alex Buzo Company’s production of
NORM AND AHMED
Directed by Aarne Neeme with Laurence Coy & Craig
Meneaud
Above:
a recent Channel 7 news report on NORM AND AHMED and its
special place in Australia's cultural
history.
ABOVE:
footage
from an
ABC TV 'Talking Heads'
episode on Graeme Blundell who produced Norm and Ahmed in
1970 including footage of the play being done for a
magistrate and his court. More information in
The Naked Truth.
including an overviews of the play in the words of Alex Buzo and suggested classroom activities devised by the BUZO ED team.
in The Australian newspaper chronicling NORM AND AHMED's past, present and future, July 2009.
ABC Radio 702
Sydney Review of
NORM & AHMED + SHAFANA & AUNT SARRINAH August
2009
The Australian
NORM AND AHMED plus SHAFANA AND AUNT SARRINAH review August
2009
Australian Stage Online
NORM AND AHMED plus SHAFANA AND AUNT SARRINAH review August
2009
Stagenoise
Review of NORM & AHMED + SHAFANA & AUNT SARRINAH
August 2009
The Sunday Telegraph
"The power of Buzo inspires Valentine", July 26 2009
SAM
"The play's the thing" by Alana Valentine, University of
Sydney Alumni Magazine, July 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald
"Holding a mirror to an Australian classic" August
2009
The Sydney Morning
HeraldNORM
AND AHMED
review
October 2007
The Australian
NORM AND AHMED review in
October 2007
Australian Stage
Online
NORM AND AHMED review
October 2007
The Daily
Telegraph
NORM AND AHMED
review in
October 17 2007
702 ABC Sydney
interview by Virginia Trioli with Emma Buzo on the work of
Alex Buzo, 2007
ABC
Radio report
on the day of Buzo's passing, August 16 2006 incl. Buzo
talking about N&A.
Wary Asians on a theme: dramatising
in the near northarticle
by Alex Buzo in Quadrant Magazine, 2004
National Library Interview
an excerpt the transcription referencing NORM AND AHMED
2001
Norm in the Wars
an excerpt from Buzo’s book ‘Young Person’s Guide to the
Theatre’ 1988
Chez Taboo
an excerpt from Buzo's book ‘Young Person's Guide to the
Theatre' 1988
