Theatre review: Taking Liberty, WA Maritime Museum
Taking Liberty is a celebration of Australia's 1983 America’s Cup sailing win.
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Taking Liberty is a celebration of Australia's 1983 America’s Cup sailing win.
It’s been 40 years since Australia snatched the America’s Cup, but for the water-logged warriors who stuck it up the New York Yacht Club toffs, the events are so vivid it could have been yesterday.
For 132 years, the New York Yacht Club had retained the America’s Cup in the longest winning streak in sporting history in the oldest international sporting competition in the world. Until 1983. The combination of Alan Bond, Ben Lexen, Warren Jones, and the hard yakka of Australia II’s crew under the brilliant skipper John Bertrand, […]