Top Coat by Michelle Law and Golden Blood by Merlynn Tong are both part of a wave of exciting new plays written by Asian Australian women.
She recalls the images she saw in advertisements – of the ocean, kangaroos and Sydney Opera House."I lived in Perth, and all my housemates were from the country, so everyone was a farmer. No one knew how to surf and I was really surprised by that."
Tong came to Australia at the age of 21 to study theatre, after she worked in advertising for a few years in Singapore. Girl gives up her dream of moving to Australia to stay in Singapore with her gangster brother – who moves in with her after their mother dies by suicide when she is 14 and he is 21."It feels free there you know / Like everyone respects each other / No lies / No dark history / No oppression / Everyone gets a fair go," Girl tells her brother, known only as Boy .
“[The play] doesn't have a deep explanation as to why we're travelling [to Singapore] or why that Australian story is taking place on Griffin's stage, but it transports us,” says Leong.Their works are part of a wave of Asian Australian theatre making by women in 2022 – alongside two upcoming adaptations: Melina Marchetta's Looking for Alibrandi by Vidya Rajan , and Alice Pung's Laurinda by Diana Nguyen .
"I really wanted people from very different worlds to swap and become aware of their own unconscious biases, and their own assumptions about each other's lives."
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