

Matt Byrne Media presents a refreshing and well-crafted rendition of this adults-only puppet parody. Mischievous it may be, but part of the appeal is its wayward honesty.

Innocence is like a Decoder puzzle. You’re given a few letters then expected to be able to work out the rest. There are symbolic set pieces, symbolic actions, symbolic phrases – a semiotic web for the audience to clumsily wade through.

With its World Premiere at the 2011 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Der Gelbe Stern (The Yellow Star) is a promising but as-yet under-developed cabaret show.

Her show is brilliantly strung together by the narrative of her life spent trying not to turn out like her crazy mother.

Amy Housewine is an acquired taste and the cabaret Back to Crack will only please the least demanding audiences.

In McLeish’s affable and personable cabaret show, The World Is Winning, he walks us through his rise to fame, and his life as an entertainer in what is rather less than he’d hoped for