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    • Jay Laga’aia - Unscripted

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Jay Laga’aia - Unscripted

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Few careers can match the breadth of Jay Laga’aia’s (Star Wars, Home and Away, Play School, The Lion King, Wicked). As the first Polynesian actor cast in a mainstream Australian drama (Water Rats), he has forged a genre-colliding path across four decades of entertainment. Now, the celebrated storyteller and father-of-eight invites you to look beyond the playful…

    • Em Rusciano Addicted to Love

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Em Rusciano Addicted to Love

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A cabaret about what we’re conditioned to chase: romance, approval, validation, and the lie that if we are good, flexible, and patient enough, it will all work out. Until it doesn’t. This show is for anyone who has left a relationship, a job, a version of themselves, or all three and then thought, “What the f*ck do I do…
    Em Rusciano Addicted to Love

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Em Rusciano Addicted to Love

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A cabaret about what we’re conditioned to chase: romance, approval, validation, and the lie that if we are good, flexible, and patient enough, it will all work out. Until it doesn’t. This show is for anyone who has left a relationship, a job, a version of themselves, or all three and then thought, “What the f*ck do I do…

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Lou Blackwell & The French Set

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A supreme musical tribute to the artists and music of the Great French Songbook! Lou Blackwell once lived and sang in Parisian jazz clubs and little bars, and is bringing her passion for the great cultural city of Paris to life in a celebration of French song. Backed by her stunning five-piece band (led by musical director and arranger, Mark Simeon Ferguson), Blackwell evokes the legendary Parisian cabaret rooms and concert halls, drawing from the…
    Jay Laga’aia - Unscripted

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Jay Laga’aia - Unscripted

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Few careers can match the breadth of Jay Laga’aia’s (Star Wars, Home and Away, Play School, The Lion King, Wicked). As the first Polynesian actor cast in a mainstream Australian drama (Water Rats), he has forged a genre-colliding path across four decades of entertainment. Now, the celebrated storyteller and father-of-eight invites you to look beyond the playful…

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Jonny Hawkins & Jo Dyer

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Clink clink, your attention please. Jonny Hawkins (aka Aunty Jonny) and guest co-host Jo Dyer have the floor in this celebration of humanity’s most dangerous pastime: public oration. Unhinged apologies, high-profile resignations, rehearsed breakups and wedding toasts-come-roasts…  nothing’s off lips in this sketch show of speeches delivered by a spectacular…

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Mahalia Barnes 

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Performing Bette Midler’s award-winning soundtrack of The Rose, Mahalia Barnes is tracing the late-60s story of a female rock-n-roll singer battling addiction, ego, power, loneliness and the fight for love and approval on her road to success. Punctuated with hits from women of the era, all of whom have left their mark on her…

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Vince Jones – A Maverick’s Tale 

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Join national treasure and Giant of Australian Jazz, Vince Jones, to celebrate a five-decade career in the spotlight. With his trademark lyrical honesty, Vince speaks to the heart through a handpicked selection of his beloved classics and previews new tunes from his forthcoming album. Experience the hits from his early-80s breakthrough, the ARIA…
    Monsieur Camembert – Cohen Noir

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Monsieur Camembert – Cohen Noir

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A decade on from his passing, the poetry and resonance of Leonard Cohen’s music remain unrivalled. Three-time ARIA Award-winner Monsieur Camembert treats us to the Adelaide premiere of this sell-out homage to the great works of Leonard Cohen, reimagining his iconic pieces through their renowned gypsy jazz sound. Cohen Noir is an immersive musical experience, moving through Cohen’s songbook with the…
    Monsieur Camembert – Cohen Noir

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Monsieur Camembert – Cohen Noir

    Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A decade on from his passing, the poetry and resonance of Leonard Cohen’s music remain unrivalled. Three-time ARIA Award-winner Monsieur Camembert treats us to the Adelaide premiere of this sell-out homage to the great works of Leonard Cohen, reimagining his iconic pieces through their renowned gypsy jazz sound. Cohen Noir is an immersive musical experience, moving through Cohen’s songbook with the…