Due to overwhelming demand, the acclaimed international hit Club Kabarett has extended its current Melbourne season for an extra two weeks, producers Velvick confirmed today. The encore run, now playing through to Sunday, June 7th, at Melbourne’s iconic Meat Market, has proven to be a box office hit and has been met with widespread applause from critics and audiences alike. The production, a celebrated fixture on the international festival circuit with acclaimed seasons from London’s West End to Edinburgh, previously enjoyed a significant success in Melbourne in 2025, securing a Green Room Award for Outstanding Cabaret Ensemble and earning three nominations.
Creative director and producer Tom Velvick’s production design has been widely lauded for its incredible transformation of the Meat Market’s historic Cobblestone Pavilion. Velvick, who has also produced and designed Crown’s Pipers Playhouse this year – has breathed new life into the venue with an immersive design that gives the transformed Berlin club both grandeur and grit. Audiences are immediately immersed in a visceral experience, saturated in red light with stark black and crimson walls adorned with spray-painted German and English phrases.
WHEN: Extension to June 7th 2026
Meat Market, Blackwood Street, North Melbourne
Club Kabarett stars the deliciously salacious and wildly talented, Bernie Dieter, alongside her band of legendary misfits and mischief makers including show favourites, Soliana Erse, a world class contortionist whose moves defy the limits of the human body; the human heatwave known as Jacqueline Furey, a purveyor of the beautiful and bizarre, whether she is swallowing swords or breathing fire; the avante garde drag cabaret artiste, Iva Rosebud, whose work spans Cabaret, Musical Theatre, Drag, Burlesque and Performance Art; and the world renowned circus performer, Jarred Dewey, whose grace and skill as an aerialist have seen him perform on some of the most prestigious stages in the world. Joining this immensely talented group of Club Kabarett favourites in Melbourne this year will be international tap dancer Caleb Cameron, who has been dazzling the stages of the Crazy Horse in Paris with his astonishing dance moves; and the hair suspension viral TikTok sensation, Mel Lee, fresh from the stages of London’s West End.
Photography Jacinta Oaten
