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Event Information
Date/Time
Thursday August 15, 2019
7:30 PM
Location
Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne
100 St Kilda Road
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Auslan Interpreter/s
Harriet Devlin Dunbar & Amber Richardson
Language/ Cultural Consultant
Tickets
I’m standing in a boat next to Muhammad Ali, floating down a dark river…
Rapper, poet and award-winning author Omar Musa brings his electrifying show Since Ali Died to Melbourne, following sold out seasons at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company, including at their inaugural Batch Festival.
Using the death of his hero Muhammad Ali as a lyrical springboard, Musa dives into a furious torrent of poetry, story and song, confronting everything from suburban violence to lost love to his Malaysian heritage and the dark realities of growing up as a brown-skinned Muslim boy in Queanbeyan, Australia.
Award-winning director Anthea Williams is once more at the helm of this livewire, hypnotic and totally unmissable hour of theatre.
4 stars! The show unfurls like the river imagery in Musa’s evocative script: borne on a central, unstoppable current, fluid and fluent in a style of its own making.
Omar Musa writes hard, beautiful poems about things that are true.