Tangled and tackled: Black Ties at Sydney Festival 2020
about 60 months ago (01/30/2020)
Tangled and tackled: Black Ties at Sydney Festival 2020 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Garth Oriander January 31, 2020 By Maria Herminia Graterol Garrido (550 words, 4-minute read) The challenges of fusing and representing more than one culture while planning and executing a memorable wedding are well-known to us in real life and in fiction. Movies like My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), The Birdcage (1996) and Top End Wedding (2019) have explored the themes of love, family, loyalties, tradition and change successfully using the romantic comedy lens. Similarly, Black Ties brings up all of these themes in a performance that lets us think about the ways gathering two families from two distinct cultures can be, indeed, too much.