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The first thing Joel Bray would like you to know about his deeply intimate play about the alienating experience of racism in Australia is that it’s actually “a bit of a romp”.

The overarching themes — heartbreak, racism, and lack of belonging — belie the lightness of a hit in last year’s Sydney Festival, which will be performed to groups of about 20 people at a time over two

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