BIJOU: A Cabaret of Secrets and Seduction starring Chrissie Shaw
Sumptuous, Dark and Funny Cabaret for Sydney Season from 17 August. Enjoy a winter evening in a cosy Parisian bar, as exotic, aging - but still irresistible - BIJOU and her wonderful pianist spin a musical tale. Fresh from critical and popular Melbourne and Canberra seasons and a regional NSW tour, Chrissie Shaw is Bijou! @CabaretBijou #bijoucabaret
Venue: The Depot Theatre
Address: 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville
Date: 17 to 27 August, Wed-Sat
Time: 8pm, Sun 5pm
Buy / Ticket: www.thedepottheatre.com
Web: www.bijoucabaret.com
: https://www.facebook.com/bijoucabaret/
Address: 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville
Date: 17 to 27 August, Wed-Sat
Time: 8pm, Sun 5pm
Buy / Ticket: www.thedepottheatre.com
Web: www.bijoucabaret.com
: https://www.facebook.com/bijoucabaret/
You're transported to a café-bar in Paris 1933. A wine, a chat; the music plays"¦ there's a new face in the crowd. A ravaged figure enters, dressed in faded finery and fake pearls and the evening takes an unexpected turn. 'Bijou', former Queen of the Demi-Monde, unleashes a cascade of intimate, colourful memories, taking us back in time to the shadows of her youth. Bijou survives a hard world by constantly reinventing herself: a young ingénue on the stage of the Paris Varietees; a high-class courtesan; the hard-bitten madame of a highly imaginative house of joy; a vulnerable child at the mercy of the adults around her"¦ Bijou takes us on a rollicking journey and emerges triumphant!
This sumptuous, funny, poignant "“ often dark - cabaret peeps into the private, sensual world of a riveting Parisienne d'un certain age. She is one of the night people, as captured in Brassai's iconic and revealing photographs of depression-era Paris. Featuring the music of Satie, Weill, Hollander, Bruant and more, there is sex, romance, violence, wonderful costumes, passion and poetry. And, above all, exquisite music.
Chrissie Shaw, award-winning theatre veteran, is a Canberra-based performing artist and writer. She has produced eight of her own shows, winning Critics' Circle and Greenroom Awards. "Bijou" is her latest work, which had two successful seasons at The Street Theatre in Canberra, and has toured to regional NSW and most recently a highly successful season in Melbourne's La Mama Courthouse Theatre.
In Bijou, Chrissie collaborates with a whole host of local and national talent including award-winning musician and educator Alan Hicks as Bijou's long-suffering bar pianist, Susan Pilbeam in the director's chair, lighting design Gillian Schwab and Alana Teasdale, set design Imogen Keen, costumes Victoria Worley, Liz Lea choreographer. Together they have fashioned a cabaret-style romp through the colourful life & times of Bijou. NB There will also be an AUSLAN signing interpreter (for the enjoyment of the hearing impaired) at the Wed 24 August show - a cheap Wednesday performance!
"This dark tale of high life and tragedy is a cabaret gem." "“ Canberra Times
"A riveting tour de force performance"¦ gloriously entertaining, beautifully realized." "“ City News
This sumptuous, funny, poignant "“ often dark - cabaret peeps into the private, sensual world of a riveting Parisienne d'un certain age. She is one of the night people, as captured in Brassai's iconic and revealing photographs of depression-era Paris. Featuring the music of Satie, Weill, Hollander, Bruant and more, there is sex, romance, violence, wonderful costumes, passion and poetry. And, above all, exquisite music.
Chrissie Shaw, award-winning theatre veteran, is a Canberra-based performing artist and writer. She has produced eight of her own shows, winning Critics' Circle and Greenroom Awards. "Bijou" is her latest work, which had two successful seasons at The Street Theatre in Canberra, and has toured to regional NSW and most recently a highly successful season in Melbourne's La Mama Courthouse Theatre.
In Bijou, Chrissie collaborates with a whole host of local and national talent including award-winning musician and educator Alan Hicks as Bijou's long-suffering bar pianist, Susan Pilbeam in the director's chair, lighting design Gillian Schwab and Alana Teasdale, set design Imogen Keen, costumes Victoria Worley, Liz Lea choreographer. Together they have fashioned a cabaret-style romp through the colourful life & times of Bijou. NB There will also be an AUSLAN signing interpreter (for the enjoyment of the hearing impaired) at the Wed 24 August show - a cheap Wednesday performance!
"This dark tale of high life and tragedy is a cabaret gem." "“ Canberra Times
"A riveting tour de force performance"¦ gloriously entertaining, beautifully realized." "“ City News