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7 October 2011 The Guardian

Apocalypse: A Glamorously Ugly Cabaret

By John Clancy. An Occasional Cabaret theatre review.

IT'S the end of the world as we know it and Catherine Gillard and Nancy Walsh feel fine. The two actors are washed up on a tiny cabaret stage for one last vaudeville turn before the apocalypse. Their makeup is smeared and the showbiz sheen has been knocked off their padded costumes, but they have songs and sketches and every chance of being sent to a better place when the Grim Reaper arrives. They're determined to go out smiling.

7 October 2011 Northings

Apocalypse: A Glamorously Ugly Cabaret

By John Clancy. An Occasional Cabaret theatre review.

CABARET is the artform we associate with decadence and a kind of end-of-the-world desperation. Perhaps the Emperor Nero was its first practitioner as he fiddled while Rome burned. Most commonly, it is the form we attribute to the nightclubs of 1930s Berlin when the Nazis were on the rise, as related in Kander and Ebb's musical Cabaret. Now in 2011, playwright John Clancy has found himself drawn to cabaret again.

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