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| Brash told an interviewer "I started writing when I was about seven years old. My father and grandmother had passed away and I was fascinated by their burial sites, the smell of the earth, the way the moonlight fell on the trees. I would sit by the grave and write poems."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Worth |first=Kiara |date=9 May 2014 |title=Spotlight on Nora Vagi Brash, Papua New Guinean writer |url=https://www.writerscollegeblog.com/spotlight-on-nora-vagi-brash/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2024042...collegeblog.com/spotlight-on-nora-vagi-brash/ |archive-date=25 April 2024 |access-date=25 April 2024 |website=The Writers College Times |language=}}</ref> She became active in the theater, eventually becoming the artistic director of Papua New Guinea’s National Theatre Company.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} | Brash told an interviewer "I started writing when I was about seven years old. My father and grandmother had passed away and I was fascinated by their burial sites, the smell of the earth, the way the moonlight fell on the trees. I would sit by the grave and write poems."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Worth |first=Kiara |date=9 May 2014 |title=Spotlight on Nora Vagi Brash, Papua New Guinean writer |url=https://www.writerscollegeblog.com/spotlight-on-nora-vagi-brash/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2024042...collegeblog.com/spotlight-on-nora-vagi-brash/ |archive-date=25 April 2024 |access-date=25 April 2024 |website=The Writers College Times |language=}}</ref> She became active in the theater, eventually becoming the artistic director of Papua New Guinea’s National Theatre Company.<ref>{{cite news |title=Well done, Nora! |url=https://www.thenational.com.pg/well-done-nora/ |access-date=29 April 2024 |work=[[The National (Papua New Guinea)|The National]] |date=23 March 2012}}</ref> |
| Brash wrote plays for stage and radio in a combination of English, [[Tok Pisin]], and [[Hiri Motu]], satirically dealing with conflicts between urban and rural people during the modernization of the country.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Looser |first=Diana |title=Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-8248-3976-5 |jstor=j.ctvsrgvh}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Keown |first=Michelle |url=http://archive.org/details/pacificislandswr0000keow |title=Pacific Islands writing : the postcolonial literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford : Oxford University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-19-922913-0}}</ref> Her ''Which Way, Big Man?,'' first performed in 1976 by the National Theatre Company, depicts a pretentious public official and his wife giving a party to celebrate his promotion, but after he is accused of corruption it ends in a drunken brawl.<ref name=":5" /> ''Taurama'' (1985), a historical drama set in the 16th century, centers on Kevau Dagora, who survives an attack on his village, Taurama. It incorporates dance and traditional ritual and spiritual elements of Papua New Guinea's culture.<ref name=":2" /> | Brash wrote plays for stage and radio in a combination of English, [[Tok Pisin]], and [[Hiri Motu]], satirically dealing with conflicts between urban and rural people during the modernization of the country.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Looser |first=Diana |title=Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-8248-3976-5 |jstor=j.ctvsrgvh}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Keown |first=Michelle |url=http://archive.org/details/pacificislandswr0000keow |title=Pacific Islands writing : the postcolonial literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford : Oxford University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-19-922913-0}}</ref> Her ''Which Way, Big Man?,'' first performed in 1976 by the National Theatre Company, depicts a pretentious public official and his wife giving a party to celebrate his promotion, but after he is accused of corruption it ends in a drunken brawl.<ref name=":5" /> ''Taurama'' (1985), a historical drama set in the 16th century, centers on Kevau Dagora, who survives an attack on his village, Taurama. It incorporates dance and traditional ritual and spiritual elements of Papua New Guinea's culture.<ref name=":2" /> |
Okumaya devam et...