Room service on Adelaide Cabaret Festival menu for 2021 at L’Hotel
The first six shows for next year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival have been revealed – including what goes on behind closed doors at a luxury French hotel.
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What goes on behind closed doors at a luxurious French resort will be revealed when Brendan Maclean’s bellhop character barges into L’Hotel at next year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
“I’ll be like a French version of the Shakespearean character Puck, who guides you through the show and connects you with those performers,” Maclean said.
“Hopefully, my character sheds a little sprinkle of truth on each of those scenes.”
L’Hotel will be a brand new cocktail of French music and burlesque from director Craig Ilott, who masterminded such previous hit shows as Velvet and Smoke & Mirrors, at the Space Theatre from June 11-20.
“When you first enter, it is like a theatrical abstraction of a fine French foyer … punctuated by performance,” Ilott said.
“Then we transform into the darker, more secret part of the night, behind closed doors.”
L’Hotel is among six shows for next year’s Cabaret Festival which go on sale Monday, November 9, including its international artistic director’s new show Alan Cumming is Not Acting His Age, and his late-night bar hotspot Club Cumming.
Other early releases include Reg Livermore’s 1970s cabaret classic Betty Blokk Buster Reimagined by performer Josh Quong Tart, Selina Jenkins’ show Boobs, and the Variety Gala.
Tickets at adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au