Ben Brooker is a writer, editor, and critic based on the unceded lands of the Peramangk people in the Adelaide Hills. His work has been featured by Overland, Australian Book Review, RealTime, The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, and others in Australia and overseas. Ben was an inaugural Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellow and was appointed to the board of Writers SA in May 2021. Since 2015 he has written about OzAsia, the preeminent festival of Asian arts in Australia.
W!ld Rice’s “Hotel” at Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival
In 2015 Singapore celebrated ‘SG50’, the city-state’s golden jubilee, marking 50 years of independence as a sovereign nation. Commissioned by the Singapore International Festival of Arts to respond to that year’s theme of ‘Post-Empires’, W!ld Rice created Hotel, a sprawling, four-and-a-half-hour-long play in two parts intended to subvert the nationalistic triumphalism of the jubilee’s official […]
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