She might look like Elvira with an undercut but close your eyes and there are times when Joey Arias will take you straight back to the smoky Jazz ‘n Blues of Billie Holiday. Arias on Holiday is somewhat of a misnomer though. It isn’t a reading of Arias’ 1987 album…
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Robyn Archer began her career as a cabaret singer at the opening of Adelaide’s Space Theatre in Brecht and Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins in 1974. Her international career as a performer and festival director returns her to Adelaide for Que Reste-T’il?, a celebration of French cabaret. Joined by long-term collaborators…
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When Jacques Brel died in 1978 at the age of 49 he left behind a body of work whose influence extends far beyond any barriers of genre, culture or age. Still, The Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s tribute show Love. War. Death. BREL is a puzzling affair. The set seemed to want…
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Christine Johnston, best known as one of the three Kransky Sisters, brings her latest oddball venture, RRAMP, to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Songs, dances, animation and more are all delivered with deadpan kookiness. For 70 minutes Johnston sings skewed stories about chickens, tax receipts, scabs, kitchen utensils and her love…
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Meow Meow certainly knows how to make an entrance. A diva of her class deserves nothing less than rapturous applause and masses of adoring fans throwing roses upon the stage. If, like at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, such a glamorous affair isn’t forthcoming, no bother, Meow Meow is perfectly adept…
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A relative newcomer to the world of cabaret, Catherine Alcorn is clearly embracing the Adelaide Cabaret Festival scene, and simultaneously enchanting audiences with her new show: Go Your Own Way. This timely production, coincidently piggybacking the 2013 Fleetwood Mac World Tour, provides a gripping insight into the inner workings, relationships…
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The beauty of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival is that there is such a diverse mix of entertainment. Virginia Gay’s Songs to Self-Destruct to has it all. The production is a melting pot of musical genres, with a dash of crazy, a swig of sexy and bucket-loads of hilarity. Virginia Gay…
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David Pomeranz walked on stage and did something unusual. Instead of simply beginning his one-man show, Chaplin: A Life In Concert, he stood centre-stage and explained why he was doing it. Apparently, his dad is a very stoic man but by chance one day the boy and his dad watched a…
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To a twinkle from her pianist Australian Lucy Maunder walked on stage in a skimpy black dress, sat down in front of the piano and began a slow and gentle recital of Irving Berlin’s ‘Blue Skies’. Maunder’s opening comment — “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my New York” — set the…
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Paul Capsis usually puts on a good show and his current outing at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival The Paul Capsis Revue is no exception. In fact it’s a rollicking good time. Capsis struts onto the stage in a sparkling white vinyl suit with bigger hair than Jon Bon Jovi ever had…
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