In the opinion of Adelaide Fringe Award-winning cabaret star Michaela Burger (Apocalypse Meow), the en masse arrival of Greek immigrants to Australia is one of the country’s most colourful moments in recent history. She pays tribute to his great multicultural influx and particularly the hard yakka of her larrikin father Luke in new show A Migrant’s Son.
Her grandparents settled in Coober Pedy, where Luke set about toiling in the opal mines at the age of 16. He’d already been hard at work running delivery errands for the family bakery from the age of seven, and went on to build a supermarket empire in Adelaide. Always maintaining an electric sense of humour that saw him through back-breaking work, he was willing to sacrifice everything for his family. Burger relays the adventures of Luke and her clan through song and comic stories.
You can stream it online, as presented by Riverside Theatres Digital, with a special watch party edition on Friday, August 20, at 7.30pm followed by a behind-the-scenes insight and a livestream Q&A for $18-$25. Or you can then watch it on-demand until September 5 without the bonus material for $12.50-$18, until September 5 at 10pm.
So many Aussies will recognise this have-a-go hero’s adventure, which crammed audiences in when it debuted at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, going on to win the inaugural Frank Ford Award at the 2019 Adelaide Fringe.
