Wogs Out of Work
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| Wogs Out of Work | |
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| Written by | Nick Giannopoulos Simon Palomares Mary Portesi |
| Date premiered | 1987 |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | comedy |
| Setting | Melbourne |
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Wogs Out of Work is an Australian play which was written by Nick Giannopoulos, Simon Palomares, and Mary Portesi.
It debuted in 1987 at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and was enormously successful, touring for a number of years.[1] The original cast included Nick Giannopoulos, Simon Palomares, George Kapiniaris,Steve Bastoni and Mary Coustas. Veteran film and TV director Marc Gracie was the original director of the production.
The success of the show led to a TV series Acropolis Now[2] plus a number of similar comedies, including Wog-A-Rama, Wogboys, Who Let the Wogs Out?, Star Wogs,[3] and Il Dago as well the films The Wog Boy and Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos.[4][5]
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pazano, Chiara; Oregliaa, Carlo (28 November 2019). "War of the 'Wogs': Comedians fight over right to use racial slur". SBS Your Language. Special Broadcasting Service. www.sbs.com.au. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kalina, Paul (19 August 2009). "Greece is the world for Wog Boy sequel". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 23 September 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
