It is with sadness and concern for our artists that we will be postponing our entire Comedy Festival season, including this production

We hope to re-program all productions in 2021 and trust you will understand the need for this decision at this time.

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Brought to you by KROWS BAR KABARET

Despite the drought it was a very fluid summer

Following a sell-out season at The Butterfly Club, steamy Soap Cabaret (created by Melbourne underground cabaret icon Ella Filar) hits the boards of the iconic La Mama.

After a stint with the KGB, Mrs.Robinson swaps her Kalashnikov for a Camera Obscura. Feeling the heat she lifts her skirt, zooms her fisheye lens onto her own dysfunctional family trapped in subliminal excesses of romantic addiction and shoots four characters’ in an act of bearing their essentials. The result is a series of bizarre and ludicrously comic underdeveloped and overexposed holiday snapshots.

Warning: contains absurdity, audacity and climax change

‘Krows Bar Kabaret is uncensored, absurd, real and raw political ‘no excuses theatre – which is often hard to find in Melbourne

– Weekend Notes

Created by Ella Filar

Performed by Casey Nicholls-Bull, Ruth Katerelos, Chris Molyneux, Alex Woolfe, Bruce Langdon, Ella Filar (keyboard), Martin Zakharov (Sax), Sally Banks (Violin), Roni Linser (Jembe).

Produced by KROWS BAR KABARET

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