Modern Australian

Going Down finds hilarious satire in migrant identity

  • Written by Asher Warren, Lecturer, University of Tasmania
Going Down finds hilarious satire in migrant identityJosh Price, Catherine Davies and Jenny Wu in Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre Company’s Production of Going Down. © Brett Boardman

Going Down is a vibrant, layered comic exploration of stereotypes, from piccolo-quaffing urban Melbournites to migrant memoirists from ethnic minorities.

The plot follows...