Helen Stringer, Journalist

That’s not to mention the ridiculousness of watching a grave; dead people don’t do much. But seriously, who needs more justification than strippers and Elvis impersonators?

"I really prefer to present my work in sound form just because it puts my stamp on it. If somebody else reads your poem it can be really totally different to how you intended it to be."

This is new theatre at its most exciting: uncompromising, fearless and unrelentingly, disturbingly human.

“We were drawn to Andy Warhol… We were really inspired by the element of the innocence of the ‘60s."

“If someone can write about it in the paper then I can write a play about it. No-one says it’s too soon to report.”

“We want to play things on stage and a lot of times we can’t find them so we’re forced to invent or to find them.”

Like your Shakespeare served with unhealthy levels of snot? Shake & Stir co-founder Ross Balbuziente gives Helen Stringer the oil on their latest production, Out Damn Snot.

"It could go any way: they could end up together, they could go home together, one of them could leave, who knows?”

I Am Here is not an indictment but a celebration of opportunity, diversity and – at the risk of sentimentality – hope.

Outside on the Cherrypicker Stage, Ice Cream Factory have set up shop and spend the day entertaining recuperating, moderately buzzed attendees with near-constant circus performers.

Ultimately A Tribute Of Sorts is one-of-a-kind theatre, endearing and strange in equal measures.

“I think the Australian accent is more than a way we speak. I think it’s a way we view things as well - we see things in an accent, if that’s possible.”