{"product_id":"norm-and-ahmed-9781925005288","title":"Norm and Ahmed","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alex Buzo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Currency Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Currency Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Australian \u0026amp; Oceanian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Buzo has something real and immediate to say about Australian attitudes. He makes the audience uneasy about the unperceptiveness of an 'average' Aussie confronted by a well-mannered, educated Pakistani student. Norm parades many of the proper, accepted attitudes which [...] are shot through the fabric of the Australian character.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Griffen Foley, \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e, 10 April 1968 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten and performed in 1968, \u003cem\u003eNorm and Ahmed\u003c\/em\u003e was Alex Buzo's first performed play. It gained immediate notice, both for Norm's spectacular language and for the character of Ahmed, one of the first South Asian characters to feature in contemporary Australian theatre. Still alarmingly relevant in the 21st century, \u003cem\u003eNorm and Ahmed\u003c\/em\u003e has earned its place as a classic of Australian theatre due to its timeless themes and the heightened language, performance style and concern with the behaviour of Australians, its origins and causes that characterised the New Wave.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46497996079255,"sku":"9781925005288","price":1444.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781925005288.webp?v=1769190434","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/norm-and-ahmed-9781925005288","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}