The importance of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival has been recognised nationally, receiving the status of a significant, popular event that is unique to Adelaide.  In fact, the only one of its kind in the world!  The formula of celebrating all forms of cabaret in a festival context is a winning one.

Distinguished theatre critic Mark Shenton in What’s on Stage, London wrote:

“I have just seen the future of cabaret… and it’s good.  There is an intangible atmosphere that you can’t exactly create (let alone describe) but it’s here: a sense of artistic display and creation in which audiences and performers alike are being intensely challenged and invigorated by new discoveries about themselves and each other.  The Festival far and away exceeds any thing I have seen in London or New York.”

And The Advertiser summed up the creative and box office success with the comment,

“Here’s a festival that actually delivers on the promise of something for everyone.”

One of the most beautiful sights of our Cabaret Festival is the diverse and democratic mixture of people from all walks of life and all ages enjoying the cabaret experience.

Cabaret is entertaining, engaging, and provoking.  It is… Entertainment with Attitude!

What is so engaging about the cabaret experience is the intimacy… that personal interaction between performer and audience.

The artist shares quite personal stories and interpretations of songs that reveal the artist’s own thoughts, loves and view of the world.  The cabaret artist touches our humanity by sharing with us special moments of beauty and truth.  Like when the great Marlene Dietrich sings about our vulnerability in her famous song, 'Falling in love again'.

Falling in love again, Never wanted to,

What am I to do, I can’t help it.

We need to consciously re-connect with our humanity. It exists beyond religious belief.  We need to push the understanding of our humanity to the forefront of our thinking and feeling.

Cabaret explores the many sides of being human, the rational and irrational in all of us.  

Cabaret satirises our obsessions and our prejudices.  It appeals to our sensitivity.  Cabaret jolts our compassionate intelligence. It laughs at our follies.

Cabaret inspires us, such as when you hear the courage and compassion of Piaf singing “Je ne regrette rien” … I regret nothing!  I have lived life to the full.

So come to the cabaret…

Gorge yourself on a veritable orgy of cabaret, go and see your favourite acts but also be adventurous, try a few new tricks, it could be great fun.  Plunge into the Adelaide Cabaret Experience… chat with people at your table, meet the artists and make new friends in the Festival Club.  

Shows of special interest to blaze readers: Cabaret Decadanse; Gentlemen Prefer Blokes; Bingay; Simply Barbara; Robyn Archer (pictured top); The Fabulous Francis Faye (pictured bottom); Guttenberg the Musical and The Twink & the Showgirl.

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