Ninna Tersmans FUCKING PARASITES har australienpremiär på la mama theatre

This play is about two teenage exiles who meet one morning in a cold, bare room, in a processing centre or detention facility, or some other kind of prison somewhere.
Swedish playwright Ninna Tersman’s FUCKING PARASITES is based on interviews with asylum seekers, immigration officers, lawyers, doctors, and the police, but at its heart is the gently heartbreaking love story between its two protagonists, barely more than children, who each struggle to comprehend both the darkness they have escaped from, and the callous version of purgatory they have escaped to.
Fucking Parasites is a subtly drawn, deeply poetic meditation about the vast range of contradictions and universalities that comprise what it is to be a human being.

In an era of Children-In-Detention, Paranoid-Trumpism, Real-Terror, and Enforced-Mass-Human-Migration, Tersman’s play is as profoundly relevant as it is beautifully written.

The Australian premiär of FUCKING PARASITES in the Spring of 2016 is directed and designed by award winning theatre maker Adam J. A. Cass (I Love You, Bro; Bock Kills Her Father; Since the Death of Sarah Kane), and features two emerging performers, Asha Khan and Elizabeth Esguerra.