Looking for Alibrandi, playing at the Canberra Theatre Centre on 3 – 4 October. Photo: Canberra Theatre Centre.
Josie Alibrandi is in her final year of high school. Whip-smart and aspirational, she is a third-generation Italian teenager and scholarship kid, with the shadow of a family curse and a penchant for rule-breaking. Juggling grades, boys, and the claustrophobia of an overbearing nonna and saintly mother, Josie’s life becomes tangled in the webs of class, identity, and family history as she finds her place in a changing world.
Iconic novel and cult movie, Looking for Alibrandi is the honest and empowered portrait of 1990s Mediterranean culture that spoke for the first time about systemic racism in Australia from a migrant perspective. It defined a generation and to this day resonates with those caught in the stranglehold of identity and othering in this country.
The details
What: Looking for Alibrandi
When: 3 – 4 October
Where: Canberra Theatre Centre, Civic Square, London Cct, Canberra
Cost: $25.00 – 79.00, plus transaction fee. Tickets available from Canberra Theatre Centre.
