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Monday 23 June - The Sparkling City of Omar Mazen - a play by Jack Feldstein
Palestinian immigrant Farid Mazen dreams of escaping small town Adelaide where he has never been able to succeed financially or socially. But his previous attempts at settling elsewhere have all been failures. And so he finds himself and his family back at square one. He finds himself alienated and unable to connect to his sons Omar and Hussam resorting to being strict and tough as his defence. Without the support of his wife, Nina, it’s clear he would crumble.
But everything changes when Farid opens a beauty salon, which begins to flourish. Here his cosmopolitan ways are appreciated and he starts to see himself as a successful businessman. Something he’s wished for but which he learns comes fraught with its own challenges. The temptations that come with it and the price to be paid for the stress of success. The Sparkling City of Omar Mazen is the story of a man obtaining his dream, to be a success, and then watching it crumble. It is a play about a family who must learn to accept and appreciate that what they have is good, as opposed to dreaming for what they don’t have.
THE SPARKLING CITY OF OMAR MAZEN tells a fascinating universal family story, of displacement and freedom and immigration that shows us that the freedom we seek is within us.
Directed by Jack Feldstein
Old Fitzroy Theatre
129 Dowling Street
Wolloomooloo
7:30PM $10/8
www.parnassusden.org.au
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