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Sequins, champagne and passion: Adelaide Cabaret Festival launches its 2025 program

Virginia Gay tells ArtsHub about some of the many highlights of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s 25th anniversary edition.

2 Apr 2025 0:30

Richard Watts

Virginia Gay, Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2025 Artistic Director. Gay, a fair-skinned woman, poses against a light blue backdrop and laughs as the elborate train of her black silk or satin gown billows up around her head, perhaps propelled by a wind machine out of the frame.

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Virginia Gay, Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2025 Artistic Director. Photo: Claudio Raschella.

“Cabaret, I think, is the art form that most effectively honours the feeling that we are all in the room together,” Virginia Gay, Artistic Director of the 2025 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, says emphatically.

“So it’s that. That’s why I love cabaret, and it’s why I love this festival, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival – and its audience – so much,” Gay says passionately.

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Richard Watts

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