Cabaret is many things to many people. For some it’s inseparable from the Weimar Republic in Berlin – an era with increasingly discomforting parallels to our own. Others associate cabaret primarily with Broadway tunes and razzle dazzle, with melancholy torch songs and sultry jazz standards, or intimate, deeply personal storytelling interspersed with songs.
For Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Carson is creating and performing in Baylie Carson Is Handsome(ish), which Marmion describes as ‘an autobiographical cabaret about their own relationship as a non-binary person with the word “handsome” and how they’ve grown up always being described as “handsome” and their own story spanning out from that.’
