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Meow Meow Revolution in association with Strut & Fret presents
MEOW MEOW
in Beyond Glamour: The Absinthe Tour
[5 June 2007 – NYC, NY] – Strut & Fret today announced the Edinburgh Festival Fringe premiere of 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.
She’s worked with London’s Opera Factory, toured Europe and Australia repeatedly with contemporary opera ensemble Elision (Liza Lim), Johannesburg’s Robyn Orlin City Dance Theatre (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 and Bernd Uwe Marszan (Pina Bausch).
She’s played The Spiegeltent at the Dublin, Brighton, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and NY Festivals, created a number of works for the Time-Based Arts Festival in Oregon, as well as appearing as a frequent guest in the Spiegeltent’s “La Clique” and New York’s “Weimar New York” performance project.
Meow has numerous unsavoury and crazed stalkers. She is the recipient of several awards including ones for Theatre in Berlin, The Dance Paris residency and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Award (New York). This year Meow Meow will collaborate with China’s most controversial contemporary dancer and first acknowledged transsexual, Jin Xing, in Shanghai.
“Drags cabaret kicking and screaming into the 21st century” — Time Out New York
“She purrs, she roars, she makes Pussy Galore look like a frump!” — Sydney Central
“An extraordinary voice that sounds as though Diamanda Galás drowned in cherry liqueur…She has the audience hanging on her every move.” — The Age
“a deconstructive tour de force that turns cabaret inside out…” — Preview Magazine
Meow Meow will perform nightly at 23h at the Bosco Theater, Spiegel Garden, George Square Gardens (Venue Number 87). Preview 6 & 7 August, shows 8-12 August and 14-19 August. All tickets £10 |  |
For photos and further information, please contact Paul Lucas:
+1 212 505 8908 (NYC) 07914 702 607 (after July 29)