The Copla Cabaret, Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street at 7.30pm until Saturday May 18th with Saturday matinee at 2.30pm.
The Copla Cabaret is delicious. It is a feast of music, comedy and camp brought to us from Spain. Alejandra Postigo is an exile in the UK, from the values of Franco’s dictatorship and reminds us of that censored time, which embedded attitudes in culture and generations that still impact today.
He has a refreshing rapport with the audience. He teaches us that Divas are not only important in Copla (the Spanish style of singing) but they abound and have influenced the ones we may be more familiar with in movie musicals.
He is terrific at not only explaining things, but he does so full of laughter. Copla Cabaret hits all the right notes of the cohort of gay people who love to laugh and cry to divas and their melodramatic music.
