Meow Meow's Little Match Girl
From: Thursday, 13th December 2012
To: Sunday, 30 December 2012
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Synopsis
With humour and heartache, pathos and irreverence, Meow Meow invites you to her deliciously dark twist on Hans Christian Andersen's bittersweet fable.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 20 December 2012
Hans Christian Andersen's story about the little match girl freezing to death on New Year’s Eve has sparked an extraordinary cabaret of sacrifice and salvation from the Australian diva Meow Meow, whom we last saw in London in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
This seasonal special on the South Bank originated at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, where Meow Meow devised the show - which is set on a huge red bed beneath a giant chandelier - with director Marion Potts, performer Chris Ryan and composer Iain Grandage.
She's like a bizarre mixture of Bette Midler and Fenella Fielding, belting out her numbers with great attack and sudden vulnerability, racing round the auditorium, even ripping off one of the exit signs to sing by its livid green light, achieving transcendence by actually wearing the chandelier as she rises to the roof.
Obviously Hans Christian Andersen's agit-prop fairy tale, as she calls it, is a leaping off point, n...
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