Lowering the Tone: 45 Years of Robyn Archer

Clip 3: Archer’s cabaret

3 min 18 sec

Taken from the documentary Lowering the Tone: 45 Years of Robyn Archer (1993)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG

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Curator’s clip description

Australian singer Robyn Archer has specialised in cabaret singing. Archer talking about her craft is intercut with performance pieces. Archer also talks about the beginnings of cabaret in Paris in the 1880s.

australian screen