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Chenturan Aran: The import-export of identity


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Thousands of Sri Lankan children were adopted illegally between the 1960s and 1980s, leaving many inter-country and inter-racial adoptees grappling with lost identities. Sri Lankan-Australian playwright, Chenturan Aran, uses dark humor to explore this painful history in his new production, 'Cut Chilli'. But how does one craft such a story in Australia, a country with its own history of stolen generation, while also renegotiating their cultural displacement as a child of the diaspora? Dilpreet hosts.
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