Jack Davis NO SUGAR
Jack Davis’s ‘No Sugar’ explores the experiences of Aboriginal people living in Australia during the Great Depression using forms and conventions such as music, song, and dance, language, social realism and open staging. ... They are used throughout the play ‘No Sugar’ to emphasise the displacement and dispossession of their culture and heritage. ... No Sugar is a play about the serious and significant event of The Stolen Generation that is part of Australia’s history. ... The humour in No Sugar is often critical, but never really offensive. ... They change the words to ‘No sugar in our tea, bread and butter we never see. ... These forms and conventions emphasise the injustices and experiences faced by the Aboriginals throughout No Sugar.