Theatre review: Jacky, Arts Centre Melbourne
Jacky is a rare and beautiful thing: vitally important and current while being enormously entertaining, hilarious and heartbreaking.
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Jacky is a rare and beautiful thing: vitally important and current while being enormously entertaining, hilarious and heartbreaking.
<strong>Fairfax Studio, Melbourne Theatre Company<br></strong>By Arrernte playwright Declan Furber Gillick, Jacky follows two Indigenous brothers who clash over the expectations of white people around them
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