Sadness

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Event Sadness
Venue Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Umbrella Event New Zealand International Arts Festival 1994
First Date 1994
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description One of Australia's most incisive social photographers also proves himself a fine monologist in this special theatrical experience that is both a chronicle of discovery and death, and yet a celebration of life, love and a wonderfully dry humour. In Sadness, Yang delivers a dual history of Australian identity. One in a compelling search for Chinese-Australian ancestry begun in the goldfields of North Queensland in the 1890s. The other in a moving and sometimes harrowing account of life in the 1990s, where death can seem omnipresent in the shadow of AIDS. In Yang's own words, 'I see myself as a
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Monodrama
Autobiographical
Subjects HIV/AIDS
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Contributors
Name Function Notes
William Yang Performer
William Yang Writer
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
CV http://www.andrew-baker.com/William%20Yang_Hands.pdf
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 160684