It's the festival designed to take wog actors out of work and put 'em in it. It's the festival designed to jolt us, from our white Australia arts policy and politics slumber.
Still young after these four years, Kammer comprises musicians individually revered, which not only augurs well for the collective potential, but which is fully-realised.
Push Up is a tedious play. If ever there was a play that skimmed and skidded across the surface of its subject, dipping the odd toe in, without ever even looking like risking immersion, it's Push Up.
A gifted embroider of words, Friel combines soft lyricism and hard meaning in his play, a tragical comical historical pastoral on a spree and spoiling for a spirited spar.
Iolanthe and Janet Anderson work in cosmic, comedic accord, characterisation charismatic, timing impeccable, delivery precise, together a tour de force that ascends the cliché.
In the care of Pinchgut Opera’s director, Erin Helyard, this music, formulaic as it indeed is in some respects, sprang off the page into an experience rich in emotions.