How difficult is it to get overseas cabaret artists to travel to Australia?
We have been very fortunate this year, but pretty much everyone that we approached to be part of the Festival took us up on the offer. The reputation of the Festival has meant that we have not had a tough time at all in persuading them to make the journey. We have a large number of performers coming over – from New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Auckland, Paris and Montreal. How much content in the Festival is made up of Australian acts? Roughly about two thirds. We have a combination of the most well known names in Australian cabaret – for example, we have the wonderful Robyn Archer with her latest performance – a guide through French cabaret, as well as some of the newest faces. But in addition to this, we have a number of well-known faces who are taking on cabaret as a new medium through which to perform. Tell us about some of the international guests you have invited to Adelaide this year. Well, the headliner is Bernadette Peters. The day after my tenure was announced last year,
