If there were an academy award for the most histrionic response to Australia’s bushfires, it would be hard to go past French actress Isabelle Adjani who refused to perform at this year’s Sydney Festival because it would be an act of ‘unspeakable indecency.’ Australia’s bushfires were not a drama, she declared but a ‘human, environmental and political tragedy’ brought on by its ‘imperious climate-skeptical, eco-irresponsible leaders.’
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