“The genuinely dark element certainly was most successful in grabbing our attention. As for the comedy, Packer played to a rather sparse house on Saturday, which was a pity, because the warmth of a larger audience with a wider range of life experiences might have aided and abetted the humour inherent in her clever script: the classic perspective of a child untangling adult explanations of a multicultural, multiracial place that pays lip-service to political correctness but lets slip lurking attitudes colouring a bewildering variety of philosophies, lifestyles and religious stances. […] Packer plays the part of Ada in a high, twittery voice that is not put on. It is her own and it perfectly captures a little girl giving us the background to the Christmas carol she is about to share with us. In her story-telling, she nicely jumps from side to side to give us reactions and dialogue from her mother, her father and her companion misfits at the Carol Camp.”