y separately published work icon Good Muslim Boy single work   drama  
Adaptation of Good Muslim Boy Osamah Sami , 2015 single work autobiography
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Good Muslim Boy
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'What does it mean to be a good Muslim boy? You probably shouldn’t gawk at girls in bikinis or fake a medical degree. If you must be an actor, you shouldn’t play a gay man on television, or Saddam Hussein in a post 9/11 American musical. And you definitely, definitely shouldn’t leave an arranged bride at the altar.

'Meet Osamah Sami. He’s done all of the above. Interesting, considering his father is one of the leading Islamic clerics in Australia, having pulled his family out of war-torn Iran to settle in suburban Melbourne.

'But when his kindly and unorthodox dad dies suddenly during a trip to Iran, Osamah must grapple with an inscrutable and corrupt bureaucracy in his fight to bring his father’s body home to Australia – all the while looking back on his life in a haunting, hilarious and heart-wrenching retrospective.'

Source: Queensland Theatre Company.

Notes

  • Green Room Awards:

    • Rodney Afif (Outstanding performance in a featured role): nominated.

Production Details

  • Produced by Queensland Theatre Company, 12 July to 4 August 2018, Cremorne Theatre, QPAC.

    Director: Janice Muller.

    Cast includes Rodney Afif, Nicole Nabout, and Osamah Sami.

    Designer: Romanie Harper.

    Lighting Designer: Ben Hughes.

    Sound Designer & Composer: Phil Slade.

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