CABARET

Cabaret is a daring exploration of music, dance, circus and theatre. Echoing films such as 'Metropolis' and 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari', Cabaret recreates a world both dark and dangerous, full of promise and beauty. An underground world where strange bets are made, secret messages carried and unrequited love fulfilled. The tragic-comic, decadent world of 1920s German Cabaret is updated to the present with costuming by Enmore TAFE students.

A cast of 15 characters included a trapeze swinging fortune teller, an enigmatic concierge, a gangster called Mac the Knife and two lovers locked in a deadly aerial transaction. The Cabaret Band accelerando provided spirited gypsy melodies reminiscent of a rainy day in Paris with old melodies plucked from the guitar, fiddle and the accordion.

Cabaret performed at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Newtown Theatre in 2002.