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Karen Berger

KAREN BERGER

  
Nationality:    Australian
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Karen has a B. Music Performance (Improvisation) in voice, and a Graduate Diploma in Animateuring from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has a Cert IV in Training and Assessment and and a M.A. in Performance Studies from Victoria University for which she received the College of Arts Most Outstanding Post Graduate Award. She has taught extensively, including at the University of Ghana and James Cook University. Karen has worked as an actor, director, musical director, puppeteer, singer and instrumentalist in Australasia, Europe and Africa. Career highlights include award winning shows in the Edinburgh and Melbourne Fringe Festivals; musical directing shows for the Womens Circus and at the City Baths in Melbourne; working in theatre-in-education in Namibia and the Northern Territory; participating in traditional ceremonies in Ghana; and appearing in Melbourne International Festival with Navigators, an international collaboration created from research carried out in Cape York, and with The Teapot Ensemble of Australia.

Research:    https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/410804

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         Deceptive Threads
Deceptive Threads

Deceptive Threads
A singing spy, a hawker's lie& How do you reconcile a family history littered with secrets? Deceptive Threads tells the extraordinary true stories of David Joseph's grandfathers-one a Tivoli singer turned ASIO spymaster who vetted 'unwanted' arrivals, the other an early Lebanese immigrant who had to lie about his birthplace to gain Australian naturalisation. In this award-winning solo show, Joseph explores race, belonging, history, and national identity to theatrically illuminate the personal in the political. Deftly untangling the threads linking his family's connection to Australia's racist past and its present dilemma over asylum seekers, he explores the nexus between the government control of immigration and the 'unwelcome' immigrant.

Notes:
written by David Joseph and Karen Berger

1st Produced:
Metonoia Theatre, Brunswick     Aug 2015

Organisations:
Bowerbird Theatre

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Further Reference:
https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/128998

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