Meow Meow is trying to find somewhere to birth her new
Christmas show. There’s no room at the Royal Albert Hall or the Sydney Opera
House, so the old brick building on the Southbank in Melbourne will have to do.
Apocalypse Meow: Crisis Is Born is Meow Meow’s holiday show that was
original commissioned by the Southbank Centre in London in 2014. Now it has finally
found its way to Melbourne and it’s not even Christmas. It is an early
Christmas present, though.
Meow Meow is such a singular presence on stage, she will
outshine everyone when appearing in shows not of her own making, but when it is
her own show and you’ve seen her before, you know what you’re getting yourself
into. A self-described gargantuan performance artist, her singing is sultry and
smooth – she will have you laughing one moment and moved to tears soon after.
If you think this all sounds a bit heavy for a Christmas show,
you’re right, but you’re probably forgetting you’ve been disappointed by
Christmas before. Sometimes the best laid plans go awry, crisis is born and you
just have to make do. You can trim a tree, invite carollers into your home,
sing songs of the season and get snow in your hair – but sometimes that’s not
enough.
It’s always hard to describe a Meow Meow show, but this one
in particular is playing on the idea of surprise – one of the key elements of
the Christmas tradition. I don’t want you to know what’s under the tree,
wrapped perfectly, with a bow on top. Just know that you’ll have a good time
but sometimes, occasionally, Christmas dinner isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Especially if you’re an orphaned Dickensian caroller.
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| Apocalypse Meow: Crisis Is Born Photos: Pia Johnson |
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