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Author: Moni Storz

Concerned that so few Chinese are performing artists and when they are, there is little opportunity for them to show case their talents . I created the ACT, the Australasian Chinese Theatre Company. The ACT’s inaugural production was From Little Things….devised, designed and written by Aurora Kurth and produced by Moni Storz in 2008. This was followed by Tegan Jones in Blues in the NIght. I wrote and produced Our Man in Beijing, my first inter cultural play and this was performed in 2011.

Yue Liang Dai Bao Wo De Xin sung by Diana Nguyen

Posted on September 7, 2012May 5, 2013 by Moni Storz

This song is probably the most famous of all tunes in Asia. It is like a national anthem that bonds Chinese everywhere. It is the signature tune of the Chinese diaspora. In Our Man in Beijing, Diana Nguyen sang it with a Vietnamese accent accompanied by Phil Trainer. There was not one Chinese person in…

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Our man In Beijing has a SOLD OUT SEASON at La Mama!

Posted on September 4, 2012May 5, 2013 by Moni Storz

An awesome sell out…cast and crew were superb front and behind curtains. The rehearsals were hilarious as the new leading lady Diana Nyugen is a comdian, famous for her Phi and Me act in Melbourne. Peter Muir who was the leading man in last year’s production had to be flown in from sunny Queensland, straight…

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Our Man in Beijing opens at La Mama 25th August 2012

Posted on August 14, 2012May 5, 2013 by Moni Storz

Our Man in Beijing in the winter season at LaMama has a new leading lady Diana Nyugen of Phi and Me fame…she is hilarious, sings like an angel and so much fun to watch…

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The ACT on tour of the British Isles

Posted on June 9, 2012May 5, 2013 by Moni Storz

Me and Phil Trainer just completed our tour and boy! was it awesome or wot! We landed in a Great Britain that was about to celebrate the golden jubilee of QE2 and what a performance that was. But our greatest thrill was attending the Playback Theatre Festival in London and meeting its wonderful actors, directors,…

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Our Man in Beijing goes to La Mama

Posted on June 9, 2012May 5, 2013 by Moni Storz

After a successful season in Brighton, Our Man In Beijing is going to La Mama in Carlton. Two opposite ends of Melbourne. Brighton is on the bay and Carlton is on the city’s edge in the heart of Little Italy. Our Man is very honoured to be performing at La Mama, the most famous of…

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Chinese Playback Theatre: a tool in search for Chinese & ‘western’ performance pieces

Posted on June 11, 2011May 5, 2013 by Moni Storz

Playback theatre really is a wonderful tool if one is exploring performance pieces which are not written as yet or are so few that one is totally frustrated…that is my current situation in my search for intercultural pieces that highlight the differences among Chinese and Australian (or any ‘western” culture for that matter). I wrote…

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ACT in Peru

Posted on June 1, 2011May 5, 2013 by Moni Storz

A desert city, a dust bowl, eternally shrouded in mist and that is Lima, one may think. But Lima is more than this. Musicians and actors are found all over in Lima and the rest of Peru. Everywhere we went from Lima to Macchu Picchu, music followed us, wafted beneath our noses like a lingering…

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Our Man in Beijing

Posted on February 6, 2011May 5, 2013 by Moni Storz

I finished writing Our Man in Beijing 2009. It was a sad moment as I just got news that my best friend died. A friend since primary school. She would have been the first to produce it in Malaysia. I returned to Australia and after several failed attempts at finding an appropriate director, Our Man…

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