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MEOW MEOW
Review

MEOW MEOW

March 12 2010

Meow Meow – Crisis is Born: Again The Studio, Sydney Opera House, March 2-14, 2010

BEST cabaret was the verdict of the Sydney Theatre Awards last year and on her return to the Opera House “by her own demand”, Meow Meow has not taken her foot off the gas pedal.

The show is sharp as razors, wicked as witches, funny, clever, satirical and unlike anything else around. Backed by a band of four tight and terrific musicians – piano, cello, guitar and drums and a lot of sparkly white underwear – Ms M delivers an extraordinary mix of comedy and song, story and narcissism. She is unpredictable, apparently fearless and shameless, original and also oddly vulnerable and sweet – in the way that an unexploded bomb might be vulnerable and sweet.

When she bothers to do anything as mundane as simply sing she has a glorious voice, but mostly, she is way too busy entertaining the adoring troops with an outrageous and eclectic series of ideas that should not be described if you haven’t seen them because that spoils the fun.

MEOW MEOW

When this all too short re-run is over Ms M is off to London and to lay siege to the Edinburgh Festival people. God help them all. It’s not often this kind of wacky genius comes calling.

 

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