“Cabaret, I think, is the art form that most effectively honours the feeling that we are all in the room together,” Virginia Gay, Artistic Director of the 2025 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, says emphatically.
“There’s so little separation between performer and audience in cabaret, and the most exciting cabaret for me really just smashes through whatever little remnant of fourth wall that there is. When I think about Reuben [Kaye], when I think about Rizo [both of whom are programmed in this year’s Festival], I think about these people who are fearless with a crowd, who go out, who sit on audiences’ laps, sometimes put their head in audiences’ laps.
