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Dark, surreal museum-like room lined with framed silhouettes of women pinned like specimens. A pale opera-diva illustration stands in the foreground, wide-eyed, mouth open in a dramatic cry, butterflies swirling around her. A glass dome containing pinned monarch butterflies sits on a pedestal behind her. Eerie, theatrical, and feminist-dystopian, evoking themes of erasure, captivity, and transformation. Text on the poster announces “3 Shows Only!”
comedy-opera hybrid, chaotic diva, beautifully unhinged, darkly funny, avant-opera, big vocals, big eyes, butterflies.
Performer in red polka dot suit sitting on a white couch

MAX SHARAM is MEZZO CUCKOO!

Platinum-selling powerhouse Max Sharam — 90s art-pop icon who walked away from the commercial music industry — detonates onto the stage from New York with Mezzo Cuckoo: Diva Gone Dada. With virtuosic vocals, razor-sharp wit, set inside her cinematic universe, Sharam hijacks opera as a site of rebellion, twisting beloved arias into anarchic parody as a surreal act of resistance against a culture determined to label women ‘cuckoo.’ Blending opera bouffe, absurdist theatre, and slapstick, Mezzo Cuckoo is a must-see for anyone craving boundary-pushing performance with something urgent to say. 

 

★★★★★ The most brilliant, inventive, meaningful and mind-blowing performance I’ve seen in years. Max Sharam’s Mezzo Cuckoo left me in awe of her talent — I loved it so much I can’t stop thinking about it. Go see her show! She’s only in Oz for a limited time. 
 
★★★★★ A one-woman tour-de-force, Mezzo Cuckoo short-circuits the patriarchy with sly theatricality and aching tenderness, revealing what happens when a woman refuses to quietly vanish. 

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Theatre and Physical Theatre
New South Wales • Australian Premiere
 
Fri, 20 Feb - Sun, 22 Feb
 
50 min
 
Star Theatre Two at Star Theatres
 
PG
 
$25 to $33
 
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Reviews

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    Max has always been a total original...She's one of a kind - Larry Buttrose, Sydney Fringe

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    Max could take that show anywhere to any audience and it would be a hit - Sydney Fringe

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    A one-woman tour-de-force, Mezzo Cuckoo short-circuits the patriarchy with sly theatricality and aching tenderness - Dr. Sully, Sydney Fringe

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    The most brilliant, inventive, meaningful and mind-blowing performance I’ve seen in years. Max Sharam’s Mezzo Cuckoo left me in awe.. - Sydney Fringe

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    Sharam sings throughout, and what a voice she has: operatic, powerful, and stop-you-in-your-tracks beautiful. - Jo Laidlaw, THE LIST

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Reviews & Fringe Feed Reacts

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  •          

    Max has always been a total original...She's one of a kind - Larry Buttrose, Sydney Fringe

  •          

    Max could take that show anywhere to any audience and it would be a hit - Sydney Fringe

  •          

    A one-woman tour-de-force, Mezzo Cuckoo short-circuits the patriarchy with sly theatricality and aching tenderness - Dr. Sully, Sydney Fringe

  •          

    The most brilliant, inventive, meaningful and mind-blowing performance I’ve seen in years. Max Sharam’s Mezzo Cuckoo left me in awe.. - Sydney Fringe

  •          

    Sharam sings throughout, and what a voice she has: operatic, powerful, and stop-you-in-your-tracks beautiful. - Jo Laidlaw, THE LIST

See more on the Fringe Feed

Please note: This event has had a change in ticket pricing and a time change from 5:55pm-6:40pm to 6:00pm-6:50pm since the Adelaide Fringe Guide was printed.


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