2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Smoke & Mirrors - 23rd June to 26th June
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 9:08PM
NEWS: Smoke and Mirrors shines at the 2010 Helpmann Awards
Be consumed by a breathtaking vaudeville fantasy.
“This is rock ‘n’ roll cabaret with a scorching live band.” - The Sun-Herald
The phenomenal hit of this year’s Sydney Festival, from acclaimed director Craig Ilott, Smoke & Mirrors takes you on a journey across an illusory landscape, accompanied by some dangerously charismatic strangers and the extraordinary talents of, iOTA (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Featuring a four-piece band led by Tina Harris, the production brings together a dazzling array of characters and performers, including Todd McKenney as the Vaudevillian, Queenie van de Zandt as the Bearded Lady, Timothy Woon as the Magician and Chelsea McGuffin in a unique and moving trapeze act. Leave the everyday behind and abandon yourself to a lavish and lyrical adventure of the fantastical kind.
Faturing: iOTA, James Brown, Casey Douglas, Chelsea McGuffin, Todd McKenney, Christian Schooneveldt-Reid, Queenie van de Zandt, Timothy Woon.
Band: Tina Harris (Bass, Guitar), Joe Accaria (Drums, Percussion), Chris Ball (Keyboards, Saxophone, Melodica), Martin Hailey (Guitars, Banjo, Mandolin, Lap Steel)
Created by Craig Ilott and iOTA, Directed by Craig Ilott
A uniquely twisted adventure from Sydney Festival and the producers of La Clique.
Co-commissioned by Sydney Festival and Spiegeltent International for Sydney Festival 2010.
Warning: this show contains smoke, strobe lighting, coarse language and a naked flame.
Reviews:
Part clown, part rock star, part Berlin cabaret queen, part desolate regret and all charisma, iOTA seems on the brink of something extraordinary and is a magnetic and fascinating stage presence. He and Craig Ilott flirt with the dangerous aspects - the grotesques, the physical proximity of the audience, the actual danger of the aerial and balancing acts, the social and sexual ambiguity of the characters and the out-of-time quality of the show itself - a salute to the 90-year-history of the Spiegeltent. Yet it would be good to see the show develop and grow; to take the frissons of excitement generated by the skirting of the perilous and go further.
Read the full review by Diana Simmonds here.
Rarely can the pace of such a cabaret balance physical spectacle with romantic ballads, strobe lights, magic tricks, comedy and deliver a show which reveals as much as it conceals - and the sleight of Ilott’s hand is impressive. Though some may be happy to be dazzled by the surface of this show of mirrors and smoke - for those who look deeper, the heart of the show reflects of the fires of lust/sex/love.
Read the full review by Augusta Supple here.
Venue: Space Theatre
Dates: 23rd June - 26th June
Time: 23-24th @ 9.30pm, 25-26th @ 7.00pm & 10.00pm
Adult: $55.00/Adult Season Pass: $50.00
Concession: $50.00/Concession Season Pass: $45.00
GreenRoom: $19.95
Booking: call 131-246 or click here.
*For Season Pass bookings (book 4 or more tickets in one transaction for great savings), click here.
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Other shows featured in 2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival:
Shoshana Bean: Late Night in the Banquet Room
Pasek and Paul - Along the Way
Robyn Archer - Berlin Between the Wars
An Evening with Stephen Schwartz and Friends
Frisky and Mannish School of Pop
Trevor Ashley is Liza (on an E)
Donna McKechnie - My Musical Comedy Life
Morphium - A Kabarett by Kim Smith
Hugh Sheridan - Newly Discovered
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