Bitter & Sweet

Amal Awad

2023年12月 · Bolinda · 朗讀者：Nisrine Amine

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Sometimes you have to lose everything to find yourself ... The lake in the middle of her father’s kitchen is only the first in a series of disasters in Zeina’s life. Nassar’s recent health crisis has seen his well-established community restaurant, Casablanca, losing ground and customers to trendier competition. Casablanca’s deterioration is not the only chaos in Zeina’s world but, unlike her husband who won’t speak to her, her best friend who is sliding towards self-destruction, and her cousin who is stealing Zeina’s life story for content, the restaurant is something she can fix. And Zeina, lonely and adrift, needs something she can fix. Taking leave from her prestigious chef position, Zeina throws herself into caring for her ailing father, immersing herself in the familiar foods and flavours of her childhood, trying to save both him and his restaurant. But working in the kitchen – and her childhood home – brings memories, secrets and unexpected ambitions simmering to the surface. When it comes time to make hard decisions, Zeina will have to accept that growing up is an ongoing process – one that never gets any easier.

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Amal Awad is an Australian writer, director and performer. She has contributed to such publications as The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, ELLE, Meanjin and Frankie, and has produced and presented for ABC Radio National. Outside of mainstream media, Amal has held senior editorial roles at a number of trade media publications, reporting on the financial services, property and pharmacy industries. Amal has appeared as a speaker at schools, universities and writers' festivals around Australia. In 2019, she was a TEDx Macquarie speaker, giving a talk on 'Moving beyond the token minority' in film and television. Amal is the author of eight books, which include both fiction and non-fiction titles. As a screenwriter, Amal has worked on several film and television projects, including her own. In recent years, Amal has also pursued directing and acting, and has taught story and writing intensives.

Nisrine Amine is an AWGIE-nominated, Lebanese-Australian actress, writer and director. She is known for her various stage and screen credits including Home and Away, Amazing Grace, Mr Inbetween, and Frayed. She is the co-writer on the feature film Here Out West which will be the opening night film at the 2021 Sydney Film Festival. Nisrine is also the co-founder and creative director of Parramatta Actors Centre.