Invited Rehearsal: Critique Cabaret

​INSIDE THE REHEARSAL ROOM: CRITIQUE CABARET, BEFORE ITS EDINBURGH PREMIERE.

​This August, Mandy Harris Williams takes Critique Cabaret to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Before it goes, we're opening the rehearsal room for one afternoon in New York.

​Join us at LDK Productions in Midtown for a full run-through of the show in its Edinburgh form — alongside press and a small group of invited guests — by the performer Dazed Magazine says "makes cultural criticism a performance in its own right."

​Schedule:

​3:45pm – Doors open
4pm – Run-through of Critique Cabaret
4:45pm – Q&A and mingling
5:30pm – Fin

​Coming early? Bottoming for Jesus — also Edinburgh-bound — runs in the same room at 2pm. You're welcome at both.

​​About Critique Cabaret: 

​Does glamour offer refuge for the beleaguered intellectual, or is it a trojan horse for delivering critical theory?

​Critical theory is transformed into cabaret glamour in this Black, queer, feminist reimagining of Cabaret where pop spectacle is the show. Oration, original music, dance and projected video collide in a show about attention, survival and the cost of staying politically coherent in public.

​Do you stay or do you leave? Do you fight or do you party? Do you keep performing under power, or step out from under the demand to make sense?

​Only Mandy knows.

​Originally commissioned by Performance Space New York

​​Critique Cabaret

​Created and Performed by Mandy Harris Williams
Co-directed by Michael R. Speciàle
Movement Direction by Frankie Orr
Co-produced by Family Affairs Studio & Ideals Inc.
Associate Producer - Hannah Said

​European Premiere at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
C-Venues, C-Aquila Temple
17-30 August at 19:25
Tickets at: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/critique-cabaret
Learn more at CritiqueCabaret.com