Reviews – The inaugural Canberra Cabaret Festival
23 November 2023Reviews
Successful start for cabaret festival
– Bill Stephens 20/11/2023 CITY NEWS
Tim Maher – Cafe Boomer
“Accompanying himself on an artfully disguised keyboard,… an amusing discourse on relationships of various kinds… an engaging, confidently performed and thoroughly entertaining presentation.”
Marcel Cole – ‘The Ukelele Man’
“Accompanying himself on ukulele and banjolele… a hugely enjoyable, brilliantly executed cabaret experience.
Dave Collins and Lou Blomfield – The DownLows – ‘That’s what friends are for’
Delightfully entertaining selection of ballads and show tunes. Both are superb vocalists, … their duet, “The Song that Goes Like This” from “Spamalot” is probably the funniest version you’re ever likely to experience.
George Belibisakis – ‘Be Brave, Changeling’
“… an often confronting, but ultimately optimistic, cabaret.”
Lawson Reid – ‘Cruiseships and Crematoriums’
“Revealing an engaging personality and an enviable talent for stand-up, Reid regaled his audience with a stream-of-consciousness account of working on cruise ships, living in government-subsidised hotels after being made homeless by floods, then finally discovering his niche as a “Pet Aftercare Specialist and Corpse Removalist”.
Keeping his audience agog with revelations so bizarre that they just had to be true; thus providing a fascinating climax to Canberra’s first highly successful cabaret festival.