I wasn’t a fan of Meow Meow’s latest show LITTLE MATCH GIRL, after Hans Christian Anderson’s 1845 fairy-tale, performed in Hyde Park’s famous Spiegeltent.

It was just something about the style of presentation that didn’t feel right to me. Here was this show that was supposed to be about really serious subjects like youth homelessness and other ills within society and yet Meow Meow came across as mixed up, glib and cynical and half the time she spent trying to flog her new compact disc.

Too many times I’ve seen shows start with performers carrying on about being let down by technical malfunctions when it is just a way into their performance. Meow Meow carried on about how the power within the Spiegeltent had failed and that’s why she had to use battery operated s and miner’s lights and I though oh no, please don’t go there!

Meow Meow has a great voice and she can deliver a tender ballad, she had a great band with musicians Lance Horne, Xani Kolac, Stephen Fitzgerald and James Manson, still LITTLE MATCH GIRL failed to make a lasting impression.

Malthouse Theatre Company’s production of Meow Meow’s LITTLE MATCH GIRL, created by Meow Meow and Ian Grandage, performed by Meow Meow and Mitchell Butel, and directed by Marion Potts, opened at the famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park, on Thursday January 5 and runs until Sunday January 29, 2012.

© David Kary

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