Lighten Up - Softcover

Nicholas Brown; Sam McCool

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1760620289 ISBN 13: 9781760620288

Publisher: Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS), 2017

Synopsis

In Australia, we like em blonde and bronzed. In India, it s fair and lovely . So what happens if you are stuck in between? John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams of being cast in his favourite TV soap, Bondi Parade. The problem is, his coloured contacts can t hide the fact that his skin is more brown than white. Meanwhile, his skin-bleached mum is determined for him to procreate with a blonde, white Aussie woman in order to rid the family of any sign of their ethnic heritage. All hell breaks loose when John falls in love with an Indigenous woman called Sandy. This very funny play by actor (and Bollywood leading-man) Nicholas Brown and comedian Sam McCool tells a universal tale of identity, cultural assimilation and bleaching your bits. (2 acts, 2 male, 4 female).

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About the Authors

NICHOLAS BROWN is actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. A NIDA graduate, he has had lead roles in the Indian/Bollywood films Sedition, Pratichhaya, Love You To Death and Kites. In Australia, Brown has appeared in the films unINDIAN, Random 8, A Man's Gotta Do, Temptation and The Characters. TV roles include The Code 2, Packed To The Rafters, Mr and Mrs Murder, The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away, Lucky Dragon, City Homicide, Home and Away, The Cooks, White Collar Blue and Heartbreak High. Theatre credits include Lumiere in Disney India's Beauty and the Beast, Jesus in Alyque Padamsee's Jesus Christ Superstar in Mumbai, Dead Man Brake, The Laramie Project, A Counting And Cracking Of Heads, Rehaan Engineer's Seven Jewish Children, Rehaan Engineer's Doctrine: How to Survive Under Siege, Miss Bollywood – The Shilpa Shetty Musical, The Oresteia, Romeo and Juliet, Fewer Emergencies, Spew and Frozen. His screenwriting credits include Tantra 2 and the fantasy film The Brownies. Brown is a proud member of Actors' Equity and the Equity Diversity Committee.

SAM MCCOOL is a writer, emcee and stand-up comedian who speaks 4 languages and has travelled to over 60 countries. In 2016, he premiered his solo show Turning Thoughty on his 40th birthday at the Sydney Opera House and completed a World Tour including shows in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Paris, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and at the Rio Olympics. McCool was a finalist on Australia's Got Talent, appeared on various TV and radio shows in Australia, an Indonesian soap opera, Aussie feature film Dags and created ads for Microsoft. He regularly performs at corporate events for Australia's biggest institutions including 3M, BD, LJH, AMP, CBA, ING, ZIP, TAB, UNSW, OPTUS, ACCOR, DOMAIN, MIRVAC. Eventually he aims to diversify to companies without acronyms. He has performed for organisations as diverse as the Canadian Tourism Commission, Bali International Fashion Show, Macedonian Film Festival, US VFW, Mekong Club, Arab-Australian Business Council, ANZ Business Association of India and Disneyland Paris. McCool has supported worthy causes such as Earth Hour, the Oncology Children's Foundation, RedKite and FSHD. He was invited to help launch the Australian Human Rights Commission Anti-Racism campaign at UNSW with his show Embracist. Finally his collaboration with Nicholas Brown has led to the production and publishing of their original play Lighten Up.

Edition details

• Publisher: Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1760620289
• ISBN 13: 9781760620288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96