Heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking,Chewing Gum Dreams is a one-woman play from the perspective of a 14-year-old black girl growing up in London.
It wouldn’t be summer in Sydney without the Sydney Festival,featuring a diversity of cultural events throughout January. Here our critics review some festival highlights.
The young and young at heart are invited to run amok in Sydney Festival’s interactive family show at Carriageworks.
Crew and cast members have been sidelined and wary patrons are staying home,with one festival organiser saying “it feels like the beginning of the pandemic all over again”.
The author and journalist had faced criticism on social media in recent weeks for not acknowledging the artists’ boycott.
I doubt many people consider how a live performance has been funded while they wait for it to begin.
Chairman David Kirk confirmed it was festival management who approached the Israeli embassy to support Sydney Dance Company’s performance of Decadance.
Calls to financially punish artists or organisations who choose to take action in line with their values smacks of desperation.
Thaw features an acrobatic performer balancing,grasping and watching her frozen home melt away.
The boycott has now affected 27 events and resulted in the withdrawal of 10 participating artists,according to organisers.