AND THE COLOURED GIRLS GO…
JUNE 28 – JULY 8

A lavish selection of cabaret (and anti-cabaret) acts from local and international stages.

MICH EN SCENE
Songs of Jacques Brel
Wednesday 28 June – Sunday 2 July, 7:30pm

Following a sell-out concert tour of Northern Europe, acclaimed performances
in New York and Edinburgh, and now direct from the Adelaide Cabaret Festival,
the Belgian duo Mich en Scene featuring Micheline Van Hautem (vocals) and
Frederik Caelen (accordion and piano) will hit the Malthouse for an eagerly
anticipated series of performances devoted to the master chansonier Jacques
Brel.

"Short of major surgery, cancel whatever you have on and hear Micheline Van
Hautem give the songs of Jacques Brel a lingering kiss of life."
The Sydney Morning Herald

EDDIE PERFECT IN…
"I Can Help You Stop Smoking"
Friday 30 June and Saturday 1 July, 9:30pm

The man who brought you Angry Eddie; the multi-award winning, blacker-than-black musical comedy that deconstructed politics, war, mass media, apathy and
juice bars and Drink Pepsi, bitch!; his satirical assault on globalisation,
materialism, anarchy, sex, drugs and conspiracy theories is back to combine
new material with some old favourites.

"There is an edgy, high-risk quality to Perfect’s performance that barks back
to the political dissent of Weimar-era cabaret." Sydney Morning Herald

THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 July, 7:30pm

They're ugly and their personal hygiene leaves something to be desired - but
they're funny as hell and 100% chaos! The cult hit of the 2005 Melbourne Fringe
and 2006 Melbourne Comedy Festival is about to be unleashed at the Malthouse.
A freak-fest featuring a cast of necrophiliacs, murderers, chronic masturbators,
prison bitches and Jesus freaks! Hear twisted tunes of the likes of Bowie, Lou
Reed, Rufus Wainwright, King Missile and Kevin "Bloody" Wilson.

"Combines brains and the profane…a creeping underground hit."
Fiona Scott Norman, The Age

MOIRA FINUCANE and Her Legendary Burlesques with
MARTIN MARTINI & THE BONE PALACE ORCHESTRA
Wednesday 5 – Saturday 8 July, 9:30pm

SHE hijacks and hotwires a myriad of artforms to make them serve one Queen;
creating wild and improbable adventures, be they gothic images of delicate
predation, or hysterical and feral portrayals of monstrous sexuality that literally
have audiences squealing and running in fear and delight.

THEY are misfits cultivating a cult following for their junkyard
funkbluescircusjazzgypsy music. Songs that run away from home to live in
cheap motels, songs that bury themselves in your backyard to help the flowers
grow. It’s prison music for dwarf children that borderlines on tourettes.

TOGETHER they are an unlikely and formidable ensemble of freaks, packed tuba
cheek by milk jug jowl on a tiny stage playing a vicious variety twister for your
egregious entertainment.

VAUDEVILLE X
Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July, 7:30pm

Witness a merciless lampooning of Australia’s middle-classes as only the
middle-class can; a satirical lament for the passing of latter-day Medici, Paul
Keating, and the heady days when the ARTS RULED OK? Immaculately suited
and booted, our members of the ‘elite’ classes conduct a cultural autopsy on
intellectuals, right and left-wingers and lovers of high brow Art, with equal parts
vitriol and vivisection.

"…a night of impeccable song and dance. Penned by the enormously talented
and mildly smutty Michael Dalley, this show is delivered in suits, smirks and
an explicit infatuation with irony." Helen Razer, The Age