{"id":48746,"date":"2022-09-23T02:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/sep\/23\/i-never-saw-plays-about-people-like-me-on-australian-stages-writing-my-own-has-shown-me-a-good-story-connects-with-everyone"},"modified":"2022-09-23T02:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:30:13","slug":"i-never-saw-plays-about-people-like-me-on-australian-stages-writing-my-own-has-shown-me-a-good-story-connects-with-everyone-saman-shad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48746","title":{"rendered":"I never saw plays about people like me on Australian stages. Writing my own has shown me a good story connects with everyone | Saman Shad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audiences appreciate seeing a difference slice of life and will lose themselves in the story \u2013 you just need to give them the chance<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a moment in my play when one of the characters Bill is trying to convince the protagonist Nas to go away on a holiday with his wife so he can make her fall in love with him again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust the two of you,\u201d Bill says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/sep\/23\/i-never-saw-plays-about-people-like-me-on-australian-stages-writing-my-own-has-shown-me-a-good-story-connects-with-everyone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audiences appreciate seeing a difference slice of life and will lose themselves in the story \u2013 you just need to give them the chanceThere\u2019s a moment in my play when one of the characters Bill is trying to convince the protagonist Nas to go away on a ho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,71,62,60,61,878,877],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-culture","category-india","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-stage","category-theatre"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48746\/revisions\/48747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}