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Monologue performed by Yang with photographic slides accompanying the text.
Production Details
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First produced at the Belvior Street Theatre, Sydney, 1992 and has since toured around Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK and the USA
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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form
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Sadness : A Monologue
( dir. Tony Ayres
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Lindfield
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Film Australia
,
1999
Z1000591
1999
single work
film/TV
(taught in 3 units)
Based on photographer William Yang's one-man stage show, Sadness is a journey into the past and a heartbreaking testament to the significant traces people leave behind. Through the use of slides, oral history, and stylised recreations, Yang investigates the murder of his uncle Fang Yuen in the sugar cane fields of northern Queensland. Running alongside this narrative is a series of moving portraits of the many friends and lovers Yang has lost to AIDS. What emerges is a powerful requiem for the dead and a moving portrayal of the legacy that family and friends leave with the living.
Works about this Work
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Stillness and Intrigue in The North and Sadness by William Yang
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 151-159; notes 240) -
Who Am I? : Australian-Born Chinese
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Dragon Seed in the Antipodes : Chinese-Australian Autobiographies 2001; (p. 127-153) -
Re-siting Australian Identity : Configuring the Chinese Citizen in Diana Giese's Astronauts, Lost Souls and Dragons and William Yang's Sadness
2001
single work
criticism
essay
— Appears in: Otherland , no. 7 2001; (p. 95-109) -
Sadness : A Monologue by William Yang - A Study Guide
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen Education Online , Summer no. 20/21 1999; (p. 10-17) 'Award winning photographer William Yang explores issues of grief, family and identity in this adaptation of his acclaimed stage performance, Sadness.' -
Dis/orientations: Contemporary Asian-Australian Theatre
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998; (p. 53-70) Jacqueline Lo looks at four Asian-Australian performances that are 'paradigmatic examples of ways of intervening in the prevailing discourses of Asia' (59).
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Stillness and Intrigue in The North and Sadness by William Yang
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 151-159; notes 240) -
Who Am I? : Australian-Born Chinese
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Dragon Seed in the Antipodes : Chinese-Australian Autobiographies 2001; (p. 127-153) -
Dis/orientations: Contemporary Asian-Australian Theatre
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998; (p. 53-70) Jacqueline Lo looks at four Asian-Australian performances that are 'paradigmatic examples of ways of intervening in the prevailing discourses of Asia' (59). -
Re-siting Australian Identity : Configuring the Chinese Citizen in Diana Giese's Astronauts, Lost Souls and Dragons and William Yang's Sadness
2001
single work
criticism
essay
— Appears in: Otherland , no. 7 2001; (p. 95-109) -
Sadness : A Monologue by William Yang - A Study Guide
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen Education Online , Summer no. 20/21 1999; (p. 10-17) 'Award winning photographer William Yang explores issues of grief, family and identity in this adaptation of his acclaimed stage performance, Sadness.'
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