The Meow Meow: It’s Come To This cabaret show is set to dazzle the Soho Theatre between 6 and 24 May.
The show marks titular artist Meow Meow’s return to the London cabaret scene for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic, and she will climb over people and give them much love in an intimate environment.
Each night of a cabaret is different, but at the core of each performance lies its connection with the audience.
Meow Meow said, “It’s a wide and varied definition of what.
“I guess it’s a flowing connection with the audience, usually without a fourth wall.
“And it’s several – it’s got immense emotional impact because each song is a lifetime of stories.
“The essential thing is that you can get maximum emotional impact because you’re doing each song in its world and journey.
“And so you don’t need to stay within one world – that is a cabaret for me, and there’s an element of deep truth.”
This show uses comedy and music to explore current events, with Meow Meow taking her audience on ride of emotional extremes and ridiculous comedy.
Ultimately, the show is about her dealing with where we are now.
She said: “It’s you and me in a room together; what are we going to do about the world?”
This is an immersive experience and she describes the entire room as her play space, and as with all cabaret, the true essence is storytelling with music.
Cabaret began in the late 1800s in France as a form of political and artistic expression in bars, then extended across Europe to Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s to become a mix of political music with comedy and satire.
Meow Meow said: “It’s a mash-up, and cabaret is not defined as one thing.
“It allows diversity, which is what audiences need to see.”
The actress connects her show to history, to understand human nature and what people have constructed.
Meow Meow said: “I need that hunger for stimulation.
“So I’ve always gotten on the aeroplane or walked, carrying all my stuff, including a chandelier and a smoke machine.
“I will go to the interesting places.”
Ultimately, in cabaret, anything goes while it can be terrifying and liberating at the same time.
Meow Meow said: “Don’t think we often change the world by just screaming at people.
“I think often it comes through laughter and reflection and little moments of poignancy within music and tenderness.
“I want intense tenderness as well; I think it’s about reflecting as many, and part of me being so heightened on and off stage is about providing a huge space for imagination and fantasy.”
Her cabaret is a contract with the audience: You write the rules or you break the rules, but let’s just go and see where we end up.
When asked why people should come, Meow Meow simply said: “They would be mad not to; everyone is welcome.”
To book your tickets for Meow Meow: It’s Come To This, visit the Soho Theatre online booking page.
Picture credit: Karl Giant
