Cabaret SSSS
(See Something Say Something)
Cabaret Appelation Terroriste Controlée
Story: Sophie Bernhardt with Les Echappés theater company
Book and Lyrics: Justin Taylor and Laure Porta
English version: Justin Taylor
Music: Clement Tokats
Moldavian strip tease, sultry diva numbers, and paltry mime are suddenly interrupted by a lone suitcase smack in the middle of the cabaret. An attack? An absent-minded patron? The Cabaret performers get on the “case…” But the variety show quickly devolves into a paranoid nightmare of caution tape and emergency “laws” in the name of security. Original songs in the spirit of Kurt Weill interrupt the mayhem for reflection and water spritzes.
All images by Brandon Khan from the production at Théâtre de Ménilmontant, 2007