SEASON TWO '08

MALTHOUSE THEATRE PRESENTS
A MALTHOUSE THEATRE AND
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE PRODUCTION

MEOW MEOW IS

VAMP

ORIGINAL MUSIC & LYRICS
IAIN GRANDAGE & MEOW MEOW
DIRECTOR MICHAEL KANTOR
MUSICAL DIRECTOR IAIN GRANDAGE
DESIGNER ANNA TREGLOAN
LIGHTING DESIGNER PAUL JACKSON
SOUND DESIGNER RUSSELL GOLDSMITH
DRAMATURGE MARYANNE LYNCH
CHOREOGRAPHER SHAUN PARKER

PERFORMED BY MEOW MEOW
MUSIC PERFORMED LIVE BY
SAM ANNING, IAIN GRANDAGE, MARTIN KAY, IGOR OSKOLKOV, BEN VANDERWAL

Kiss or Kill? What’s the difference?

Somewhere between Weimar cabaret, Nouvelle Vague, Hammer Horror, In Bed with Madonna and the siren filled seas of Carthaginia, she finds us. She is the vamp, the Ever-Eternal, bursting like a flame out of our desires, lighting the path toward what we most fear and most covet.

Be prepared: The world’s most dangerous diva is back. She is Meow Meow, and Meow Meow is Vamp.

By Orient Express from Berlin to Shanghai, then across the heaving Atlantic from Paris to New York, Meow Meow has performed her multiple award winning cabaret, Beyond Glamour, to intoxicated acclaim, stranding whimpering mobs moon-struck in her wake.

For this original commission by Malthouse Theatre and The Studio at Sydney Opera House, director Michael Kantor and Maestro musician Iain Grandage (Beyond Glamour, The Odyssey) will lash themselves to the mast-post as Meow Meow - one of our great stage identities at the peak of her powers - unleashes her siren song in a full-length theatre work accompanied by an electric five piece band.

Featuring cinematic and aerial performance, Meow Meow has scoured the basement bars, private harems, silver screens, ancient palaces, ruins of Empire and cabaret stages across continents and deep in time to create Vamp: chameleon, chanteuse, seductress and timetraveller; the eternal femme fatale at once alluring and terrifying; from Salome to Mata Hari; the serpent and the vampire. Just as Paul Capsis stunned us in Boulevard Delirium, Vamp promises to be the most dazzling performance of the year.