By Peter Maddern
The ’Queen of Kamikaze Kabarett’, as she has been dubbed, returned to the Cabaret Festival last evening challenging her audience with a show that typically mixed the sensual with the bizarre.
Focusing on Weimar melodies, Ms Meow opened with a series of quite grotesque laments, all in incomprehensible German (though she kindly placed a large Funk & Wagnalls dictionary on the front of the stage should any audience members have wished to check on a translation.) Having got some patrons restless with this auditory assault, a response she rightly returned to mock thereafter, Meow rolled out a series of more upbeat numbers, often with the hilarious assistance of audience members – the imitation of the revolving swastika a moment that will long live with those there.
In a show more focused on her singing than her silliness compared to two years ago, Meow Meow allowed her audience to better appreciate her strength of voice and delivery confirming her position as one of Australia’s finest performers and show people.
While the show seemed to be a bit ramshackled at times, her occasional channelling of Dame Edna, made for a fabulous hour plus. Do make sure you see her wherever she plays.
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