6 – 19 August 2007
Bosco Theater, Spiegel Garden, George Square Gardens 11pm

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Meow Meow, international singing sensation and exotica performance artist. The “annihilatory” Meow Meow descends on The Bosco Theater – Spiegel Gardens, in a spiralling journey of obsessive love songs, minor multimedia, tired old tricks and gorgeous suicide ditties.

Stranded somewhere between the Middle Ages, 1930’s Shanghai show tunes, 60’s French pop, witty wicked Weimar and post-punk thrash comes a “sequinned sex bomb waiting to detonate.”

The darling of the dungeons of the Euro jet-set, mixes up an explosive cocktail of kamikaze kabarett, sequins, razor blades, opera ‘brut’ and karaoke splendour. Piazzolla, Brel, Brecht and Dolly Parton. Meow Meow surrenders to the business we call show with dexterity and desperation that is beyond mere glamour.

Meow Meow arrives in Edinburgh direct from sell-out seasons in Shanghai, New York and the Sydney Opera House. Her solo show was chosen for David Bowie’s High Line Festival NYC '07 (alongside Air, Arcade Fire, Laurie Anderson and Ricky Gervais) and she collaborated most recently at NY’s Hiro Ballroom with Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus creator and director John Cameron Mitchell.

Tickets www.edfringe.com

Hiro Ballroom, 7:30 PM 

High Line Festival 2007 curated by David Bowie

Meow Meow
incited by
John Cameron Mitchell
SOLD OUT

Direct from Australia, where she sold out the Sydney Opera House, Meow Meow has wowed audiences with her own brand of vamped-up kamikaze cabaret and exotica performance art around the globe. She has worked with London's Opera Factory, Australia's Elision Ensemble, Johannesburg's Robyn Orlin (Paris/Berlin), New York's Anthony Coleman (John Zorn), The John Cage Trust, John Jesurun, Mikel Rouse and Thomas M.

Lauderdale (Pink Martini), Wolfgang Schmidkte (Germany), Bernd Uwe Marszan (Pina Bausch). She has performed at Berlin's Philharmonic, The Hafen Bar, Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Sydney Opera House, New York's Lincoln Centre, The Glamour Room in Shanghai, numerous jetset dungeons and international arts festivals.

Meow has played The Famous Spiegeltent at the Dublin, Brighton UK and Melbourne Festivals (Australia), and created a number of works for the U.S Time-Based Arts Festival, Oregon, She's a frequent guest in the Spiegeltent's "La Clique", and New York's "Weimar New York" performance project. She's a recipient of numerous awards including for Theatre in Berlin, The Dance Paris residency, and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Award (New York). This year she will collaborate with China's most controversial contemporary dancer and first acknowledged transsexual, Jin Xing in Shanghai. She'll create works for a number of international arts festivals, and perform a special Mardi Gras season of "Beyond Glamour" with Pink Martini's Thomas M Lauderdale for the Sydney Opera House.