Comedy

  • Fringe Festival

Brown Is The New Yellow

Politics. Protest. Petroleum.

  • Presented by: Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance and Monash University

  • Directed by: James Jackson

Amna Bee and Aarti Vincent are two different brown women from two different brown countries - Pakistan and India respectively. They are same same, but different. Fortunately for them, humour and sarcasm transcend border control. This is guaranteed to be a hilarious and insightful show.

Amna Bee started doing comedy two years ago in Alice Springs. You won’t find her shying away from heavy hitting topics like religion, race, politics, gender, culture, and orgies. She has always been a smart ass; from Peshawar, Pakistan to Canada to obscure regional Australian towns and now finally in Melbourne. During a pit stop in Bellingen NSW she launched the first comedy night there.

A one-month stint in Berlin gave Aarti Vincent her new identity as a Delbournian, a Delhi girl living in Melbourne. You can take the girl out of Delhi, but you can’t take Delhi out of the girl – DON’T even try. In Delhi, she has extensively done theatre and has written a screenplay, ‘Same Shit different bucket’ based on her observations of working in advertising industry. A judgmental girl of the past, who is now exploring shades of grey.

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