This column is called Lunch With, but to be accurate, today it’s Brunch With, in deference to actor-dancer-musician-cabaret artist Meow Meow’s hectic rehearsal schedule. She initially requested that we meet at Brunswick Street institution Mario’s, but as I recently dined with fellow cabaret legend Moira Finucane there , we’ve ended up at Alimentari, two minutes down the road.

Meow Meow – or Melissa Madden Gray on her birth certificate – has been in the cabaret game a long time, starting with Perth Festival in 2001. She performs a style of “kamikaze cabaret”, which has been described as “always one step from disaster”. But behind the slips, wardrobe malfunctions and apparent missed cues is a sharp and savvy performer – every purported misstep is, in fact, a meticulously choreographed per

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