Peril - Asian Australian journal

Editorial

Editorial
Welcome to issue 5, Drama. Firstly congratulations to Phillip Teng and Shalini Akhil whose pieces published in Peril were picked up the "Growing Up Asian in Australia" anthology edited by Alice Pung. Alice's interview in the last issue has also been picked up by the Education Department in Western Australia for study notes. In this issue we are privileged to have interviews with the actress HaiHa Le, the artist Van Rudd and the author Simone Lazaroo. We also have excerpts from Dominic Golding's play "Shrimp" and poetry by Adam Aitken and Christopher Kelen. Our next issue will be themed "passing, failing" and the due date for submissions is October 31 2008.
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Shrimp

Shrimp
Dominic Golding’s autobiographical play “Shrimp” toured regional Victoria in 2007 as part of the VCE Drama Studies list. Most of the responses he said were good, especially from the students from minority backgrounds. However there was an incident when Dom had to confront a student’s verbal racism during the performance, and some of the teachers were stunned- having not read the briefing about what the play was about. We have published two excerpts of "Shrimp" to see what the fuss was about.

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Interview with HaiHa Le

Interview with HaiHa Le

HaiHa Le graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2003 with a B.A in Cinema Studies and Vietnamese Literature. She went on to study acting at the HB studio in NYC, and in 2005 received a Green Room Award nomination for her performance in Shrimp (Melb. Workers Theatre/La Mama). Recent theatre credits include: Letters From Animals (Here Theatre/The Storeroom), Shrimp (2007 Regional Arts Victoria Tour/VCE Syllabus), Make Me Cry (45 Downstairs).

Interview with Simone Lazaroo
Interview with Simone Lazaroo Simone Lazaroo has written three novels, The World Waiting to be Made (TWWTBM), The Australian Fiance and The Travel Writer. She was interviewed by Paul Giffard-Foret in early 2007 and 2008 for his masters thesis. We have published a brief extract of these interviews here. Read More >>

Poetry by Christopher Kelen
	Christopher Kelen the soldier’s dream I was fifteen when I went to the war never built with my hands never knew woman’s love I’d tilled the soil in my half schooled way now I’m an old man eighty and more Read More >>

Poetry by Adam Aitken
	Adam Aitken Francais We talked about brochures for the elite catering school – the number of permissible fonts, what the Cambodians like what Westerners don't. Read More >>

Interview with Van Rudd

Interview with Van Rudd
Art Drama: Van Rudd and the Melbourne City Council
Lucy Van

On the day the Bill Henson story broke (May 25, 2008), another art-controversy story made the front page of Melbourne’s broadsheet, The Age. Van Rudd, nephew of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, had his work, “Special Forces (After Banksy)” banned from a Melbourne City Council exhibition for which, after invitation, it had been specifically prepared. The CEO of the City of Melbourne, Kathy Alexander, told The Age
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