Bran Nue Dae review: great Australian musical resonates with vibrant cast at Sydney festival

Playwright Jimmy Chi’s quintessentially Australian work is a blend of ironic wit and lacerating truths that still need to be heard today

The revival of Jimmy Chi’s musical Bran Nue Dae, which has opened in Sydney before a national tour 30 years after its premiere, hits the nation’s tender spot as we enter a new decade still grappling with Indigenous constitutional recognition.

The cast of this landmark Aboriginal play, set in the 1960s, delivers this long-awaited new production with brio, instilling hope that with unity there is a way forward to reconciliation.

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