Once again, daring to venture away from the predictable, more ‘famous’ Fringe arenas yields GOLD. Stitch in Time: A Knitting Cabaret is a total delight with a world renown performer, tucked away in Flinders Street at The Jade - an attractive cabaret venue. Canadian visitor Melanie Gall is both an engaging raconteur and superb singer. Their soaring vocals transport you from sweet, melodic ballad territory to full opera quality to husky/sexy cabaret, sprinkled here and there with a tender vibrato. Articulation, pitch and expression are all beyond excellent and make you want more after the hour is up. This performer has training and a career biography to admire and with only backing tracks and a slide show, brings to the fore a history of knitting, and knitting songs, in wartime. Albeit, the backing tracks are recorded by Gall’s own jazz colleagues from New York, and provide appropriate and beautiful support. I would dearly love to see this show with live band and a better sound system - if only finances would permit. Read the full review at: https://www.theatretravels.org/post/review-stitch-in-time-a-knitting-cabaret-at-the-jade-adl-fringe