Reviewed by: Fringefeed
Review by Bruce Mutard | 02 February 2023

If you want to see cabaret at its peak, then this is the show to see. Kiara Macri (the triple threat) has assembled her gang of Perth's creamiest vaudevillians (read that how you will) to fix a smile on your dial and the need to go home and change your pants.

What excited me most is that Kiara plainly has a deep love of Bob Fosse - which I share - and to replicate 'Rich Mans Frug' (from Sweet Charity) had me gasping in delight. Numbers from Cabaret, All That Jazz, Jekyll and Hyde among others, evokes the smoky, seedy Weimar ambience which suits the venue Connections very well (although cabaret seating would be even better).

Each performer got to do a solo number and just check these names: Veruca Sour, Nicola Macri, Polly St Pearl, Lucy Lovegun, Sven Ironside and the tap dancing girl (who doesn't love a tap dance?). Special guest was the inestimable Lotta Lamour, who always high kicks it outta the club. These are Perth's best (among many others) and every number was just nailed perfectly.

I would hate to single out particular performances, but I'll risk the hate and say that aside from the Bob Fosse, Sven Ironside's solo from the Threepenny Opera - sung in German no less - as he invaded the audience (wouldn't be Brecht otherwise), was so Macheathian as to rethink my idea about being possessed by spirits.

But everyone was stunning. Truly. Kiara shined as she always does along with older sisters.

If there was only one fault, it was that too few saw what I saw on the night (okay, it was a school night, and first day of school for the year next morning, but still, art comes first). But you have two more chances to catch it, so do yourself a favour and hit 'buy tickets' now.