The Sydney festival has offered refunds to audience members who reportedly walked out of several performances of a show last week, after complaints from the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.
The peak Jewish representative body in NSW posted a “community warning” on its Facebook page on Friday, telling followers the festival production of Air Time, staged by the cross-discipline performance company Branch Nebula at Chippendale’s Seymour Centre, contained “deeply offensive antisemitic messages” with its inclusion of the contested “river to the sea” chant.
