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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2022 season. This season is now over.

A group of vintage style performers pose around a private investigator. One of the performers is singing into a microphone.
A performer sits high above the stage wrapped in a red silk-like circus apparatus. Below her performers in vintage costumes sit at cabaret tables.
A women wearing a red dress spins in a giant hoop on a smoke filled stage.

Cab Suave

Circus • LGBTQIA+
Australia • SA Premiere

Join Dick Johnson as he investigates the sparkly and sultry Cabaret Suave, a questionable establishment run by four scandalous dames. With spectacular circus acts and live music, Sparkle Society transports you back in time in this Film Noir circus show. Bringing everything you love about beautiful vintage aesthetics, but without the pesky vintage values. A story told by a fabulous queer cast, and one token straight white man.

Cab Suave will have you biting your nails and dancing in your seat, a rollicking good time that is made for adults but suitable for all ages. Will the crew of Cabaret Suave live to dazzle another day, or will Dick Johnson succeed in his plan to drive them out of town? Come and find out if you dare – after all, a little party never killed nobody…

"Cab Suave is both a fresh and flirty take on circus cabarets and a well needed reimagining of film noir for the modern era. Packed with all the circus you could need, a script full of zingers, and whole lot of charm, it’s the perfect piece of escapism for the virus that shall not be named. " Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane

“Seriously, gorgeous voice, I'd go to the show just to hear her sing." Weekend Notes

"Sultry feel of classic film noir." Blue Curtains

Please note: This event has had a time and date change, and changed venues from 'Wonderland Festival Hub - Hindmarsh Square - Empire Theatre' to 'Gluttony - Rymill Park - Ukiyo' and 'Quicksteps Outdoor Ballroom' since the Adelaide Fringe Guide was printed.

Presented by: Sparkle Society

Sparkle Society was founded by two long time creative collaborators Abby Kelso and Latonya Wigginton. Our aim is to make a performing arts collective that focuses on transparency with members, representation for queer artists and making live performance accessible to a wide audience.

Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts

  • Bang for your buck 1

  • Sultry feel of classic film noir. - Blue Curtains

  • Packed with all the circus you could need, a script full of zingers, and whole lot of charm, it’s the perfect piece of escapism. - Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane

  • Seriously, gorgeous voice, I'd go to the show just to hear her sing. - Weekend Notes

  • Cab Suave, decked out in fabulous shimmering costumes ... has the audience laughing, singing and clapping along - Michelle Wakim, InReview

  • Sultry, stylish and slick, Cab Suave is a clever meld of circus and cabaret presented in a shadowy film noir world. - Craig Cook, The Advertiser

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