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, a hallucinatory opera-comedy set inside her cinematic universe. With virtuosic vocals, razor-sharp wit, and a vivid digital world, Sharam reclaims 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. 

 ★★★★★ With sly theatricality and unsettling grace, Mezzo Cuckoo reveals what happens when a woman refuses to vanish quietly.

Theatre and Physical Theatre
New South Wales • Australian Premiere
 
Fri, 20 Feb - Sun, 22 Feb
 
45 min
 
Star Theatre Two at Star Theatres
 
PG
 
$30 to $40
 
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