Dinosaurs open at the Cabaret  Photo by Zoe Gorman.  Amelia
Roper DRA ’13 is an award-winning Australian playwright and
first-year Yale School of Drama student. Her latest play, “Hong
Kong Dinosaur: A Real Aussie Love Story,” which won her an
Emerging Artist Commission at the Melbourne Theatre Company,
opens Thursday night at the Yale Cabaret. The News sat down with
her at the Cabaret Monday night to discuss her play about cross-
cultural love and dinosaurs.  Q Tell me about the play.  A A
couple of the characters are Australians and one is an old
Tibetan paleontologist. One of the central characters is from
Hong Kong and moves to Australia to be with an Australian boy
that she meets in Hong Kong. That’s the central story. And then
there’s an earlier time period story about some first generation
Irish people at the top of the 20th century in Australia who are
going through the First World War. So it’s mostly about
Australia, but each of the characters embodies different
national identities or idea about nation