Time, we are told, is meaningless in the exotic Katakombs Nightclub. Just sit back and be entertained by that divinely decadent, international sensation, Miss Iris. 

We may have entered through the doors of the Black Box Theatre, but we are immediately transported back to the early 1930's, to a hazy, smoky Cabaret in a Germany torn by the rise of Hitler.  The mood is grim, society polarised, and cabaret nightclubs one of the few havens for artists that allow freedom of critical thought, and the real freedom of critical speech.  

The songs of Miss Iris chart the rise of Hitler, the proliferation of fake news, propaganda, pretty little lies, death of personal liberty, death, and the hunt for scapegoats.  She delivers musical defiance. Wonderful songs, everything from Mick Jagger to the Motels, are catapulted into battle-dress of sorrow and hatred.....giving whole new meanings to lines such as 'I would sell my soul for total control...'

Stark typewritten texts are streamed on stage, charting the nightmare, from the Night of the Long Knives, through to Joseph Goebbel's boast that the press can be 'a giant keyboard on which the government can play'. 

It is tremendous theatre, crafted and performed by Joanne Hartstone. It is indeed ‘postmodern cabaret for a world on fire’, as Miss Iris reminds us,  ...it's all just a little bit of history repeating…….’and I've seen it before, and I see it again...'

Take yourself to the Katakombs!