16/12/2025
““… seeing the differences in our cultures and cross-cultural blends of migrant diasporas, there is an invisible unity …”
I saw this play and read the words above from its director Monica Sayers on the evening of Sunday 15th December. We left the theatre carrying a little red envelope, a hongbao or lai see, handed to us by the playwright, Trent Foo, who had just performed as Heepa, the young man in his very symbolic play. Inside the envelope was a message:
Christmas is near,
Our ghosts are put to bed.
Call someone dear,
Say what’s been left unsaid.
As we drove west out of Sydney, feeling uplifted by this play about family and traditions, to the east, on the beach at Bondi, another ancient tradition was being celebrated … and maliciously defiled”