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 Following on from the cult cabaret-hit and Green Room award-winner, Vaudeville X, a cultural autopsy of the middle-classes, High Performance Company presents their latest nail-file-sharp comedic cabaret Intimate Apparel.
Michael Dalley and Paul McCarthy have declared a “Sorry Day” for the Arts.
In Intimate Apparel, they pose the burning question: “Will you love me despite my lack of spatial awareness?” With verve and vitriol, they take to task those desperate and deluded individuals who bare their souls on stage at the expense of the paying public.
The middle-class girl from Kew whose ‘erotic cabaret’ makes a Gorillagram look sexy; the depressed housewife who does clowning as therapy; the illiterate footballer turned motivational speaker; postmodern pornographers and queer performance artists…are all grist for the mill of no mercy.
Nominated for a Green Room Award for ‘Best Original Songs in Cabaret’ for its experimental mini-season in 2006, Intimate Apparel brings together for the first time award-winning singer/songwriter Michael Dalley and Comedy Inc star and AFI Award nominee Paul McCarthy (AKA Mel Toupe, Noeline Dragge, Cliff Hanger and Kochie).
Intimate Apparel returns for the 2007 Fringe Festival with even more hilarious lyrical thrust-and-parry as Paul and Michael slither under the valance of the seating bank in an attempt to achieve ‘first contact’ with their audience.
What the critic said about Vaudeville X:
“… as sharp and polished as mum’s best cutlery. “ The Age
“…slicker than a Porsche full of Eddie Maguires.” Theatrenotes
“There is more than enough caster sugar to hide the tang of castor oil.” Herald Sun
High Performance Company presents
Intimate Apparel
A new cabaret by Michael Dalley
Performed by Paul McCarthy and Michael Dalley
Venue: Dante’s Gallery, Dante’s, Cnr Gertrude & Napier Sts Fitzroy
Dates: 27 September – 14 October, 2007
Preview: $5 Wednesday September 26 @7.30pm;
Times: Thur – Sun @7.30pm
Tickets: $20/$15 Conc
Bookings: 8412 8777 / www.melbournefringe.com.au
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