Performance cancelled after Sydney Theatre Company apology for pro-Palestinian protest on stage

Mabel Li and Harry Greenwood, pictured in The Seagull, were among three of the STC show’s actors who wore traditional Palestinian keffiyeh headdresses during a curtain call. Photograph: Prudence Upton

Wednesday night’s performance of the Sydney Theatre Company production of Chekhov’s The Seagull was cancelled at the last minute, just hours after the company issued a statement of apology over the actions of three cast members on opening night.

The apology and cancellation came in the wake of the resignation of one of the STC’s longstanding foundation board members, Judi Hausmann, the founder and chair of the Sydney public relations company the Haus.