Archive for May 12, 2010

IT HAS taken nine years to get here, but an evocative play about immigration will finally hit the Brisbane stage as part of a national tour this month.

The Folding Wife was first envisaged by writer Paschal Daantos Berry after the death of his Filipina mother in 2001. Six years later it debuted in Sydney to critical acclaim. “The work is poetic and language-based so it’s nice to see that it hasn’t dated,” he says. Philippines-born Berry, who moved to Australia when he was 10 years old, says it took several years More >