Acropolis Now

After World War II, Greek cinema circuits spread across Australia and were an epicentre of Greek community, language and culture that influenced many future filmmakers, such as Ana Kokkinos.

In the 1980s, roles for Greek actors were limited, so they created their own - first the stage show Wogs out of Work (1987), and then the sitcom Acropolis Now, one of the first TV shows to bring much-needed diversity to Australian screens. Besides the perfectly timed one-liners and unforgettable characters like Jim (Nick Giannopoulos) and Effie (Mary Coustas), it gave second-generation Greek Australians control of how they were portrayed - and what was acceptable to laugh at - and defied racial stereotypes that non-Greek actors, like The Comedy Company‘s Con the Fruiterer (Mark Mitchell), perpetuated on Australian TV.