Black is the new white
By: Nakkiah Lui
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Crows Nest, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781760527341
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Legal drama; Man-woman relationships; Drama; Families; Interracial dating; Aboriginal Australians; Australian drama; Race relations; Lawyers
Description: Charlotte Gibson is a lawyer with a brilliant career ahead of her. As her father Ray says, she could be the next female Indigenous Waleed Aly. But she has other ideas. First of all, it's Christmas. Second of all, she's in love. The thing is, her fiance, Francis Smith, is not what her family expected - he's unemployed, he's an experimental composer ... and he's white! Bringing him and his conservative parents to meet her family on their ancestral land is a bold move. Will he stand up to the scrutiny? Or will this romance descend into farce? Love is never just black and white. It's complicated by class, politics, ambition, and too much wine over dinner. But for Charlotte and Francis, it's mostly complicated by family. Secrets are revealed, prejudices outed and old rivalries get sorted through. What can't be solved through diplomacy can surely be solved by a good old-fashioned dance-off. They're just that kind of family. Award-winning writer Nakkiah Lui shows why she is one of this country's most in-demand young voices, delivering cutting satire that is both seductively subversive and thoroughly delightful.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Dramatis Personae; title: Notes; title: Scene 1; title: Scene 2; title: Scene 3; title: Scene 4; title: Scene 5; title: Scene 6; title: Scene 7; title: Original cast and crew; title: About the author