I was in the front row of last night's performance at the Box, and completely enthralled.
Janet Scarfe
Thank you - it was fabulous to see your show on Saturday - it was brilliant.
Dr Christina Hagger
I was blown away by your play, deeply moved – to tears at times. … You did a wonderful job and I applaud you and your mum.
Gail Cowan
A tour de force! Great work Kate!
Gaylene Preston
What a fantastic review Kate! And you so deserve it! Much love and great accolades for this incredible marathon of a rich, relevant story.
Lorae Parry
Congratulations on your huge achievement.
This is a very special piece and should have a long life.
Hurrah!
Sunny Amey
The most moving performance I've ever seen. Stunning!
Bex Ansell
Thank you so much for this wonderful play you have written. What a wonderful tribute to all the people whose stories you've told. And when you became your Mum – wow, you really became your Mum! It was eerie seeing you become an old woman before our eyes. This really is a superb piece of writing, and I hope it will go on and on. It needs to be told and retold.
Pinky Agnew
Kate I was blown away. Absolutely brilliant. Funny. Poignant. Tears in my eyes. Shocking too. What an incredible journey you take us all on. On so many levels your work is brilliant shining genius and connects with us to make us better people.
Celine Carlisle
Your story, your characters, are so heart-warming. Your mother was an incredible woman. Thank you so much for sharing her story with us.
Tabitha Arthur
Thank you for such an amazing play, Kate!
I absolutely loved it on so many levels and your acting was just astonishing.
Tiziana Stoto
Loved seeing I'll tell you this for Nothing - a terrific story and wonderfully told by you. LOVED all the characters - your mother especially and father and of course Kersey.
A gorgeous night in the theatre!!!
BRAVO!!!!
Colleen McColl
Am hearing glowing reports and reading rave reviews; mighty congratulations on what is clearly a triumph! Hoping you have a fantastic season and many more to come. Weird to remember how unsure you were at the start! All the very best.
Jean Betts
Thank you extremely much for your show. The most impressive I've ever seen. Wow, holding all that together, including yourself in the emotional revealing, etc etc, what a tribute to your mother and a great story to show the world.
Fiona Campbell
I attended your play at BATS last night. I loved every moment. All the characters were so vivid! It was so deeply sad and so funny at the same moment. Just wonderful. One image that will stay with me forever is of the woman at Belson with the piece of bread fused into her hand. A powerful symbol of the entire horrific event.
Thank you and may this production go far and wide.
Rabbi JoEllen Duckor
A quite memorable evening in the theatre…exceeded all my expectations with this finely etched and deeply felt story. Packed with meticulous research, but seldom didactic, your work held the audience from start to finish. I do congratulate you both, not forgetting the splendid team you gathered for the play. Stunning!
Ralph McAlister
"I'll Tell You This For Nothing" was a finely woven tapestry; a warp of pain, bigotry, inhumanity and the stench of unimaginable cruelty, against a weft of unselfish generosity, the determined pursuit of profound affection, the rejection of religious hatred and the heroic struggle to think, act and feel independently. Kate's ability to convey numerous characters deftly, economically, made for credible engagement. Her focus and delivery, at turns gentle, comedic, expansive, intense, vulnerable, shrill, evasive or vengeful took us to the heart of human complexity and contradiction. The staging was minimal. The direction deft. The lighting just enough. The play presented what is the tender, precious, ethical and Jewish to our community, once again. It demanded we witness, comprehend and triumph over brutality, depravity and pitiless mass murders. What a mother! What a daughter! What a story! What a play that stressed that the antidote is LOVE!
Mona Williams