It’s Adelaide Fringe Festival time again, and there is a bevvy of burlesque, cabaret, theatre and performance guaranteed to keep you out every night of the week over the next month.
Absinthe.com.au hopes to bring you some reviews of particular performances and performers that we get along to see, and tell you a little bit more about particular artists that we think are helping drive the culture that makes worthy artistic pontificating over a glass of absinthe or two all the more enjoyable.
Some highly mentionable performers we think you should try to get along to see if you are in the ol’ City of (Empty) Churches.
What could be nicer than A Dinner Date With Lorelei & Sarina? Sarina Del Fuego and Lorelei Lee will be putting on a sexy and intimate cabaret performance at Sarah’s Cafe, 12 Leigh Street, Adelaide over three nights. What more can you say about the dynamic 1920’s duo who have entertained at both the famed Edinburgh Festival and the Sony Play Station launch party? I’m looking forward to hopefully catching up with the girls while they are in town and bringing a bit more of microscope to the blossoming world of Australian burlesque for our readers.
Another event to highlight - which has already sold out - is A Burlesque Cocktail by Adelaide’s own A Wink and A Smile Burlesque at the La Boheme Bar. A combo of striptease, cabaret and vaudeville, if you can beg, buy or borrow a ticket you are one of the lucky few. Lets see if divine intervention drops one in my lap….
An anticipated cabaret spectacle is The Very Best of Empress Stah, described as Erotic Circus meets Live Art meets Neo-burlesque, complete with chandelier swinging, blood-drinking, drag and mime. Now there’s one to take your mother to. Performances will be in the Garden of Unearthly Delights.
If the choice is too damn dazzling, why not check out one of the “review” nights. You have the choice of:
The Butterfly Club, which presents a pick of the shows highlighting the who’s who of Australian and overseas cabaret performers. Performances to be held at the North Adelaide Community Centre.
Your other variety pack pick is the Fringe Club Cabaret which will present a tantalising mix of vaudeville, burlesque, beauty and quirk. With a dizzying array of dates to choose from it there is little chance of missing out. Performances will be held at the Higher Ground Inc (Theatre), 5-19 Light Square, Adelaide.
Last, but not least, I must mention the sexy & sultry songstress that is Meow Meow, who will be performing her famous Beyond Glamour: The Absinthe Tour. To be staged in the Bosco Theatre in the Garden of Unearthly Delights, her reportoire could take us from 1930’s Shanghai to Weimar Germany and back via Belle Epoque France. Love, death & sex are branded like a painful blister in each individual note of the melodies in her sirenic call. Be warned - the barriers between performer and audience are blurred. Perhaps you are her long lost love? Maybe you are the cad who spurned her devotions? Get in the mood and fortify yourself with a good French Verte beforehand I say!
My friends, the world of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2008 is indeed your tantalising aphrodisiacal oyster - shuck it and see.
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