Alex Buzo

Alex Buzo ( born July 23, 1944 in Sydney, † August 16, 2006 ) was an Australian playwright and author.

Life

Buzo was born on 23 July 1944 in Sydney. He attended the Armidale School in Armidale, New South Wales and the International School of Geneva, before studying at the University of New South Wales.

Career in the 1960s and 1970s

His first play, Norm and Ahmed, who is also his most important. It deals with racism and xenophobia, but mainly drew attention to itself, as several actors and the director Graeme Blundell, were indicted for the use of obscenities, in the piece. The prosecution, however, was overturned by the Attorney General.

Buzo was one of the leading forces behind the renaissance of Australian theater in the 1970s, along with David Williamson and Jack Hibberd. Still other known pieces of Buzo are: Rooted (1969 ), Macquarie: a Play ( 1971) and Coralie Lansdowne Says No (1974).

Later career

Later Buzo wrote books such as tautology, Real Men Do not Eat Quiche: Adapted for the Australian Male and A Dictionary Of The Almost Obvious and 1999 the book Normie and Tuan, which describes the problems of Australian identity after the fall of Pauline Hanson.

Alex Buzo died on 16 August 2006 from lung cancer. He was 62 years old.