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.
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.
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.