Roysten Abel’s The Kitchen can be seen at the 2015 Sydney Festival
It’s festival season in Australia, with the programs for Adelaide and Sydney just recently announced, Melbourne Festival about to wrap up for another year, and Jonathan Holloway’s fourth and final Perth Festival program waiting in the wings.
Once the various festival brochures have been published, it’s sometimes tempting to sit down and compare which festival has the best program – though such comparisons are often a fairly pointless exercise, according to Sydney Festival Director Lieven Bertels.