A number of the Sydney Theatre Company's luvvies took a recent curtain call draped in kaffiyehs, presumably to support Hamas and spray contempt at the Zionist Entity. A subscribers' backlash led to instructions they must never do so again, which marks a definite change from 2008. That was when Daniel Keene's The Serpent's Teeth also stumbled onto Middle East turf and the only complaints concerned a memorably stupid production