Cabaret Festival
Scottish actor and cabaret star Alan Cumming has been announced as the first-ever international artistic director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival – and he promises a 2021 line-up that will be ‘provocative in all senses of the word’.
Cabaret Festival
David Campbell pushed the boundaries of cabaret when he was artistic director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Now, the newly crowned 2020 Cabaret Icon says the artform has shown it can also thrive online.
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Almost 30 artists including Ali McGregor, Kate Ceberano, Robyn Archer and David Campbell will feature in a bite-sized and digital version of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival that celebrates the spirit of the winter event in its 20th anniversary year.
The coronavirus crisis has forced the cancellation of this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival, which was preparing to celebrate its 20th anniversary with the final program curated by artistic director Julia Zemiro.
“The band is loud, the band is raucous, so that’s where I’m at right now … I want to be the Mick Jagger of the cabaret world,” Paul Capsis says of his high-octane show revealed as part of Julia Zemiro’s first Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Fresh from her Helpmann-Award-winning turn as Miss Honey in ‘Matilda the Musical’, Elise McCann is stepping back into the gloriumptious world of Roald Dahl with an Adelaide Cabaret Festival show of music inspired by his stories.
