
Kids these days, with their texting and Tweeting and Facebooking... Too busy on that interweb to discover the finer things in life like opera. But what if you combined the two? A contemporary opera for the iGeneration?

French chanteuse Caroline Nin, crowned France’s First Lady of Cabaret, has graced the Vanguard Theatre with her presence to bring Edith Piaf to Australia.

Care Instructions is one of those postmodern theatre productions guaranteed to split an audience squarely down the centre: you’re either going to love it or hate it, understand it or shake your head, eyebrows raised.

Don’t panic, Cats fans. I’m not about to scratch out the amber eyes of one of the most wildly popular stage productions of this or any other century (and don’t for a moment think that’s going to be the last feline pun in this review).

It is 1967, in small-town Queensland, the sort of quaint country backwater scriptwriters use to justify oddballs and loveable simpletons.

Crazy For You offers a great night out, full of the fun, glitter, dance and catchy songs that make musical comedy so unique and, in this instance, such a refreshing change from the darker works which are so often performed on our stages.

Enveloped in darkness, like the moment before waking, our eyes are opened by the light, we are greeted with a bare space and an argument.