00:02Hidden away in a corner of Adelaide lies the unremarkable Logan Street.
00:10But in the 1940s the street had a rich history that's only now been fully uncovered.
00:16That south west end corner of Adelaide was known as Little Beirut.
00:20It was a slum and so it was pretty much every brown person, including the Irish, was dumped into the
00:27south west.
00:28Bohem has a very personal link.
00:31My grandmother's house 31A was right here, backed onto the mosque, and then next door to hers was her uncle
00:37John.
00:37It was here his grandmother forged an unusual friendship with former Afghan Kamali Ghul Muhammad, or Ghuli, in the local
00:45mosque.
00:46Now he's putting that forgotten part of the city's history on stage, highlighting the lack of rights many groups had.
00:53I can't say I'm Aborigine. I can't talk to other Aborigines. My children will never be Aboriginal.
01:00And by the end of reading the script I was in tears.
01:03It was honestly a script that I had to put down halfway through it because I was so moved by
01:08it.
01:09Taking a trip to Ghuli's grave is part of his preparation.
01:12It was quite special for me, you know, to kind of say, hey, I'm going to, to the best of
01:17my ability, tell your story.
01:19Opening night will carry more expectation than normal.
01:22God, yeah. I'm going to be completely nervous on the first night.
01:26But I'm also going to be sitting alongside aunties, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, so the pressure's on.
01:31The show runs for two weeks.
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