by C.J. Lazaretti | Oct 1, 2012 | Reviews
A seminal landmark in Parisian nightlife since the 1950s, cabaret club Crazy Horse is as famous for its glamorous dance shows as for the many celebrities it counts as patrons and collaborators. The eponymous spiegeltent on London’s South Bank saves you a trip to...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Sep 22, 2012 | Reviews
How can you improve an addictive evening of transgressive delights like The Double R Club? Cake is a good beginning. Celebrating three years of vaudevillian insanity “inspired directly or indirectly” by the work of David Lynch on September 20th, the award-winning...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Sep 18, 2012 | Features
If you’ve been to more than five variety shows, you’ve probably heard these songs, maybe over and over again. C.J. Lazaretti takes a look at the backing tracks that burlesque crowds have heard too often. The soundtrack of a burlesque act needs to convey a clear...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Sep 18, 2012 | Reviews
Wild entertainment beyond the reach of decency, virtue and licensing laws is what follows whenever Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz share the stage. Billing themselves as The Freak and the Showgirl, the two performers specialise in graphic antics that mock all notions...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Sep 13, 2012 | Reviews
It would be simpler if it were just a foreign country. In Backgammon for Beginners, the past is a mythical land of legend, hearsay and conjecture. Taking inspiration from Iranian fairy tales, which traditionally state their unreliability in their very opening line, So...
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