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Counting and Cracking
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FRESH from the Edinburgh Festival and bearing plaudits and awards from its homeland, this multinational production from Australia is a tale of reconnecting with one’s roots however painful and traumatic they may be.
Focusing largely but not exclusively on Sri Lankan immigrants to Australia, this sweeping epic spans three generations from 1956 post-colonial Ceylon and the rise to dominance of the Sinhalese community through the 1970s Tamil Tigers’ insurgence and the wave of suffering and forced migration that ensued up to 2004 and a first-generation Australian youngster alienated from his family’s history, language and culture.
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