Adam Goodes’ AFL exit inspires sporting comedy calling foul on racism

This Brisbane show is filthy one instance, elegiac and poetic the next – Chariots of Fire meets the frat house.

The Adam Goodes affair revealed that Australians’ love of their non-white sporting heroes can be grotesquely conditional., a co-production of Queensland Theatre with the Melbourne Theatre Company, explores the impact of Goodes’ treatment on a low-tier AFL team that has drafted two Indigenous players.Pia Johnson

Maynard and Noongar director Isaac Drandic have staged football scenes that bleed into dreamlike sequences utilising Indigenous dance, which Drandic has co-choreographed with Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Waangenga Blanco. “He’s just a loudmouth kookaburra,” reasons the pragmatic Sonny. “Who listens to the kookaburra? Not the warrior.”

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