Cabaret

Aspect Theatre Company presents CABARET to be performed at The Shirley Burke Theatre 64 Parkers rd. Parkdale. Season commences Friday 23rd July 8pm (sold out)
Sat 24th 2pm & 8pm Sun 25th 5pm Thurs 29th 8pm Fri 30th 8pm Sat 31st 2pm & 8pm....

Cast List Sally Bowles - Maree Barnet
Clifford Bradshaw - Stefan Trentini
Emcee - John Davidson
Fr Schneider - Diane Weisner-Dwyer
Herr Schultz- Colin Prosser
Fr Kost - Katie Hopkins
Ernst Ludwig -David Higgins
Max- Tony Hosemans
Kit Kat Girls - Louisa Mitchel, Taryn Gore, Kate O'meara, Fran Hopkins
Laura Golden, Bridget Morissey, Katie Hopkins,
Male Ensemble- Dean Gorden, Daniel Payne, Daniel O'donoghue,
Fraser Mitchel, Andrew Weatherhead,
Female Ensemble- Marion Hammond, Alicia Beauchamp, Alana
Swallow, Aubrey Flood

Synopsis- Set in Berlin in 1934 Clifford Bradshaw a young American writer searching for inspiration for his 2nd novel meets Ernst Ludwig on a train, he introduces him to Fr schneider who runs a boarding house where Cliff rents a room, Ernst who seems to be running a smuggling racket introduces him to the KIT KAT club a seedy club where he meets Sally Bowles a madcap but not overly gifted brittish singer she is introduced by the Emcee....Despite her rousing reception from the patrons of the club she finds herself fired, she flirts with Cliff & the next day he finds her at his doorstep bags in hand, he agrees to her moving in, time passes and Cliff finds himself getting nowhere with his novel but enjoying his affair with Sally, who becomes pregnant, he is offered a job by Ernst smuggling a briefcase into Germany needing the money he accepts....Fr Schneider who runs the boarding house is being courted by a Jewish widower Herr Schultz who also lives in the boarding house Fr Kost a prostitute who also lives in the boarding house discovers Scnieder and Schultz are having an affair so Herr Schulttz announces they are getting engaged.At the engagement party Ernst Ludwig arrives wearing a swastika armband, Cliff also turns up at the party with the suitcase he has smuggled, when Ernst realizes that Herr Schultz is a Jew he decides to leave the party, Fr Kost lures him back with a Nazi song. The guests all join in and the party turns sour.

Fr Schneider breaks her emgagement to Schultz because she is afraid what will happen to them both when the Nazis come in to power. Cliff decides to take Sally to America as Berlin is not going to be the place to raise a family , but Sally who loves Berlin and her life at the Kit Kat club refuses. They have a savage argument & she disappears, she returns the next day having aborted Cliffs child. Heartbroken Cliff prepares to leave and offers Sally to come with him to Paris. Sally is trapped in her delusions so Cliff leaves and decides to write about Sally and the people of Berlin as the live in his memory. Meanwhile the threat of what is to come looms over larger and we sense that Cliffs novel will somehow document not only the place and the people but the moment that will change the world forever....

Booking Details:
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Tickets:....Adults $28. Concession $23. children $19