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# PREVIEW: Daggers MacKenzie
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/preview-daggers-mackenzie/
- Published: 2016-05-11T10:06:47.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-11T12:03:40.000Z
- Description: She’s wanted dead or alive and she juggles knives. The one woman, knife juggling rock opera Daggers MacKenzie comes to Brighton Fringe.
- Author: Contributor
- Tags: Arts, Cabaret, In The South, News, Previews, Theatre, Brighton Festival Fringe

## She’s wanted dead or alive and she juggles knives. The one woman, knife juggling rock opera *Daggers MacKenzie* comes to Brighton Fringe.

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**Ten whirlwind songs**, four characters, and three knives flying dangerously close to her face: Melissa A. Kaplan’s original solo musical *Daggers MacKenzie* explores what happens when you fall in love with risk and fantasy.

*Daggers*, set in 1894, follows the story of **Emma MacKenzie**, a naïve American farm girl who is enchanted into the life of a circus perform by a charismatic carnival madam, tormented by romance and the performance life, and driven to a crime that brandishes her an outlaw.

### *Daggers MacKenzie sees Melissa Kaplan bring multiple characters to life with the help of big top skills and a formidable musical presence*…..ThisIsCabaret.com

*“It reminds me of the start of Ariel’s journey in the Little Mermaid,”* **Kaplan told Diva Magazine:** *“but instead of Ariel chasing the Prince, she sticks it out with Ursula a powerful, evil, seductive sea witch with gigantic boobs.”*

### *\[Kaplan is\] a rich soprano*….. The Boston Globe

A number of elements drove Kaplan, a trained musical performer and professional juggler, to create a one woman, lesbian circus indie pop rock opera: Her role as **Yitzhak** in a Boston run of the musical *Hedwig and the Angry Inch*; a headlining European tour as guitarist with the Bitchfits, an all female Misfits tribute band; circus gigs; and her collaboration with longtime musical mentor and **Melissa Etheridge** guitarist **Michael Eisenstein**.

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**Event:** *Daggers MacKenzie*

**Where:** Sweet St Andrew’s (Venue 263), Waterloo Street, Hove

**When:** May 19-22: May 24-26

**Time:** 8pm

**Cost:** £7 /£5

**To book tickets online, [click here:](https://www.brightonfringe.org/box-office/shows/view/daggers-mackenzie?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**