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    All in the family

    Feb 13, 2022 4 minutes
     by RUSSELL BROWN

    If anything captures the layered depth of Pax Assadi’s autobiographical comedy Raised By Refugees, it’s his performance as his own father.

    Transformed into the older man, Assadi plays his dad as quirky, genial, hard-working – his performance in appliance sales wins him a new job, setting up the quiet joke that the family’s consequent move from West Auckland to the North Shore is the culture shock – but also a little sad. He’s so keen to be accepted as a New Zealander that he buys his new workmates signed (“by me!”) copies of Jonah Lomu’s

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