New cabaret celebrates bohemian icon Vali Myers

And Then You Go – The Vali Myers Project is premiering at the 2022 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

24 Jun 2022 11:30

Richard Watts

A red-haired woman, her eyes dark with kohl, holds a fox and stares into the camera.

Cabaret

Vali Myers lived her life ‘authentically, with no fucks given’. Image: ‘Vali and her Fox’ (detail) by Rudi Rappold, 1972, reproduced courtesy of State Library of Victoria.

Flame-haired, kohl-eyed and fearlessly independent in both art and life, the Australian artist Vali Myers cut a swathe through global counter-culture like few others.

Vali Myers died in 2003, having been diagnosed with stomach cancer the previous year, but her spirit lives on in a new cabaret production premiering this week at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts