Kaye defines cabaret.
Presented by South Australian Light Opera Society (aka SALOS) Reviewed 21st April, 2022 Many marvels are encompassed in SALOS’s latest musical theatre offering. Director Maria Davis (with help from Bernadette Abberdan) gives us a fresh, bright look at a dear old friend. From the pre-show “turn off your phones” announcement delivered by Cordelia Ferguson’s perky […]
A devised piece by local theatre company The Gemini Collective, based on a true story A Thousand Cranes follows the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl who died from leukaemia as a results of nuclear weapons being used in World War Two.
The stories that surround the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland are unfortunately not unfamiliar. Some of the stories of the mal-treated women were put together in a theatre piece with music composition by the youth theatre company Scrambled Prince Theatre Company in their show All the Little Magdalenes.
Set in present-day New York, this show considers the questions that 38-year-old Elizabeth, a professional town planner, has about her life and its future possibilities as she moves to New York City to start afresh. She’s looking for true love and a perfect job. The book of the musical extrapolates her “what if” thoughts by allowing her to follow two different pathways into her future, contingent on her choices.
There is nothing nice about this cabaret performance – mercifully! We are confronted, comforted, ostracised, outraged, deliberately confused and just as deliberately cajoled.
Meow Meow is, at heart, a comedienne, a mistress of comedy in the tradition of Barry Humphries.
Nineteen young people whose ages ranged from eight to nineteen provided twenty-seven musical moments (as promised in the show’s title).