
Birrarung Marr is covered in a layer of frosty magic and the proud peaks of the Big Top are hoiked high once again: it must be time for Circus Oz.
In these days when it is only too easy to re–present the famous and the familiar, it takes a director with courage and imagination to dig up something new and extraordinary.
Acropolis Now, launched the famous character – (Efthimia) Francesca “Effie” Stefanidis, played by Mary Coustas. The good news is – Effie is alive and kicking, unsullied, inventive and full of vernacular impropriety.

There could be no one better than Meow Meow to capture the history of Her Majesty’s Theatre, and drag it purring right into the present.