After wowing audiences with her deliciously dark takes on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl and The Little Mermaid, the cabaret superstar, chanteuse and comedienne extraordinaire turns her attention to another of his fairy tales, The Red Shoes. When a young orphan girl wears red shoes to church, she is cursed to keep dancing forever in the gleaming footwear. Meow Meow asks if we can save the girl, and save the world, while remembering why we love to dance in the first place. “It will be uplifting, it will be entertaining . . . but the thing that Meow Meow has is an intellectual approach amongst all the frivolity and humour and sensuality,” says director Kate Champion. After Sydney, the show heads to Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre. Let’s dance!

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From a chorus of hairy fawns to singing swans and showgirl stars, experience an unforgettable, frenetic song-and-dance into meaning. A musical celebration that will shock you out of stagnancy and into ecstatic oblivion from “the queen of chanson” (Berliner Zeitung) with “devilish funny bones and heavenly vocal chords” (Evening Standard UK), Meow Meow.

Having wowed New York’s Carnegie Hall, the world-renowned creator behind Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl and Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid now urgently remedies The Red Shoes. This fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen brutally punished its covetous protagonist with an ever-dancing curse that propelled her far from heaven’s gates. Meow Meow asks: what if she could never start dancing at all? Can we save her? Can we save the world?!