by This Is Cabaret | Jul 16, 2013 | Drag, Features
Bringing the dead back to life is a tricky business – look at what happened to Jesus and Dr Frankenstein. With the aid of considerable acting talent and some original audio recordings, Dickie Beau gives the words of long-deceased icons a hauntingly powerful...
by Sarah Jane O'Neill | Jul 10, 2013 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
Le Gateau Chocolat’s delicious, multi-layered performance is the golden ticket. Indulge yourself with a blast of unashamed campery and some revealing moments. Anyone who thinks Le Gateau Chocolat is a drag act with operatic overtures is missing the point of this...
by This Is Cabaret | Jul 8, 2013 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Drag, Features
As Matt Smith has announced his departure as the eleventh Doctor Who, there is a gaping hole in the Tardis where the most famous Time Lord of them all should be. When he regenerates at Christmas, whose face will appear where Smith’s once was? It is not for us to...
by This Is Cabaret | Jun 3, 2013 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Circus, Drag, Features, Magic, Musical Comedy, News, Supperclub, Variety
May was an unusually eventful month, especially on the burlesque front with US burlesque superstar Catherine D’Lish not appearing as planned at either the London Burlesque Festival or her own re-scheduled shows and workshops. No matter, there was still plenty...
by Johnny Fox | May 15, 2013 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
It’s an old joke to suggest drag queens are “big down under” but Trevor Ashley’s production credits suggest he’s packin’ antipodean theatrical heat. In his native Australia, he played 600 performances as the curtain-raising Miss Understanding in Priscilla Queen of...
by Johnny Fox | May 11, 2013 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
As a gay man whose formative clubbing years were in the glamour-obsessed 80s, drag ought to be right up my (Danny La) Rue, “dear”, but it just isn’t. Never was. Even now I can’t see the irony in tipping up to a Soho bar in colourful wig, eyeliner and...
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