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Cabaret is often about exposing yourself – sometimes literally so, as in the case of British performance artist Ursula Martinez who, as part of a phenomenal evening called Variete during the opening weekend of this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival, makes a red handkerchief disappear and reappear out of various parts of her body until she’s completely naked and there’s only one more place for it to produced from, and she duly extracts it out of.
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At other times, of course, cabaret is about other intimate revelations. Philip Quast, an Australian actor who has long been resident in Britain, returned to the very stage where he began his professional acting career in the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Dunstan Playhouse, and he told us how he had appeared as Adam, in the nude, in a production of The Wakefield Mystery Plays.
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And another masterclass today in performance for musical theatre, this time held by Philip Quast, was a vibrant and charismatic lesson in taking a song, moment by moment, line by line, note by note, to discover what it is about and both the acting and emotional choices that have to be made along the way.
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