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Hot on the heels of a world tour, Finucane & Smith’s multiaward winning, smash hit success of festivals everywhere
The Burlesque Hour … SIZZLES! returns to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival for five sizzling shows only.
Join the mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane; legendary iconoclast Maude Davey with her infamous and
fabled strawberry act; Moscow circus trained burlesque star Azaria Universe and an explosion of guest star talent
including Clare Bartholomew’s Pierre! Magician and Love Machine! It’s a mind cracking mixture of the new, the
old and the unexpected in the world’s most extraordinary salon of showgirls with very sharp teeth!

The Burlesque Hour … SIZZLES! is a wild ride that hijacks burlesque, explodes expectations, and delights and
disturbs long after the carnival is over.

Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith – Creators

Moira Finucane is one of Australia's most extraordinary performance artists. Her collaboration with award winning
theatre creator and director Jackie Smith (Patrick White Playwright Award) has created the signature work of
Finucane & Smith. Intimate theatrical spectacles where cabaret, fairy tale, the gothic, variety and burlesque are
melded into indelible visions of gender, power, violence and desire.

From the short sharp shock of the Burlesque; to entrancing, richly detailed monologues; full-length theatrical and site-specific journeys; and the creation of a unique form of cabaret that has earned Finucane the title Queen of Cabaret Bizarre - their work together is powered by an intense and meticulous physicality, a reckless diversity of music from early opera to hardcore industrial, and Finucane's surreal fantastical writing.

Producing over forty short and full length performance seasons for major arts festivals, theatres, galleries and
clubs around Australia and internationally, Finucane & Smith's work has delighted and disturbed audiences and
critics alike - internationally with sell-out seasons in festivals in Brighton, Edinburgh, Osaka, Yokohama,
tockholm, London, Manchester and Hong Kong and coming seasons in New Zealand, Slovenia, Canada, Italy
and Croatia; and in Australia in myriad contexts including the international arts festivals of Sydney, Adelaide,
Melbourne and Brisbane, and iconic venues such as Sydney Opera House, The Australian Centre for
Contemporary Art, The Famous Spiegeltent [on and off shore], The Victorian Arts Centre and Adelaide Festival Centre.

Their work has been nominated for 16 Australian Theatre Awards and won 9, including 7 prestigious Green Room
Awards for Most Outstanding Cabaret, Best Design, Best Direction, and Most Innovative Use of Form.

The Burlesque Hour Awards

2004 Green Room Award Most Outstanding Cabaret Show
2004 Green Room Award Best Direction - Cabaret
2004 Green Room Award Best Design - Cabaret
2004 Green Room Award Most Innovative Use of Form –
Cabaret
2004 Most Outstanding Production 2004, Inpress Magazine
2004 Dance Australia List Most
Interesting and Intriguing New
Dance Works

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