There's something terrifying about Judy Bailey. I reckon she'd be a hard taskmistress. But that's precisely what's so great about her and, consequently, about the (mostly) con students who make up the Jazz Connection big band.
Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs met at Eora College 11 years ago. Thank God they did, or we wouldn't have Stiff Gins, a couple of angel-voiced singers and songwriters with gentle souls and sharp, perceptive minds.
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.
Following the unedifying edict that "there's a sucker born every minute", the show skewers the modern self-improvement economy in a piss-take parody of today's 'gurus' and snake-oil salesmen.