COMING OF AGE | FAMILY | MULTICULTURAL
Josie Alibrandi is in her final year of high school. Whip-smart and aspirational, she is a third-generation Italian teenager and scholarship kid, with the shadow of a family curse and a penchant for rule-breaking. Juggling grades, boys, and the claustrophobia of an overbearing Nonna and saintly mother, Josie’s life becomes tangled in the webs of class, identity, and family history as she finds her place in a changing world.
Iconic novel and cult movie, Looking for Alibrandi is the honest and empowered portrait of 1990s Mediterranean culture that spoke for the first time about systemic racism in Australia from a migrant perspective. It defined a generation and to this day resonates with those caught in the stranglehold of identity and othering in this country.
Award winning director Stephen Nicolazzo (Loaded, Merciless Gods) brought Melina Marchetta’s best-selling novel to the stage for the first time in 2022, where Vidya Rajan’s AWGIE nominated adaptation joined three generations of women in a passionate, heart wrenching, and unmissable rendering of the Australian classic.
Credits
- Adapted by Vidya Rajan | Based on the novel by Melina Marchetta
- Director Stephen Nicolazzo
- Writer Vidya Rajan | Based on the novel by Melina Marchetta
- Set and Costume Design Kate Davis
- Lighting Design Katie Sfetkidis
- Sound Design Daniel Nixon
- Musicians Rosa Voto and Renato Vacerca
- Tarantella Choreography Rosa Voto
- Dialect Coach Paulo Bongiovanni
- Cultural and Language Consultant Lucia Mastrantone
- Cast Chanella Macri, Lucia Mastrantone, Jennifer Vuletic, Ashton Malcom, Riley Warner and Chris Asimos.
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