Showing at the Old Mill |Theatre and set in 1953, the play steps back in time to look at racism, grief and the challenges faced by a former war serviceman who employs a migrant housekeeper from Poland.
Aung Than plays the role of the Polish housekeeper Anna and said she drew from her mother's experiences of assimilation to understand the difficulties her character faced.
"It's a chance to play a character similar to my mother; she arrived in Australia from Serbia in the 1960s," she said.
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Dolls From The Sky and Armistice Day will play together under the collective title An Anzac Duo to commemorate the centenary of Gallipoli in landing 2015.