by This Is Cabaret | Jun 27, 2012 | Features
The cabaret alternative to the Sunday football match was the Clittorati Party, hosted at the Paper Dress Vintage boutique in Shoreditch. A full-day event (for variety standards), it started mid-afternoon with a merkin-making workshop followed by performances. The...
by Franco Milazzo | Jun 26, 2012 | Features, Interview
For the last few years, The Ruby Dolls have been the quintessential Weimarian close harmony troupe with a repertoire of Brechtian songs that are intimate and streaked with social commentary, humour and history. The Dolls will be taking a new version of their Rubies In...
by This Is Cabaret | Jun 19, 2012 | Features
“If there is one thing I know about burlesque and cabaret performers is we hoard,” says Ivy Paige. After amassing a wealth of circus signs, props, wigs and costumes, some of which she’s never worn, the singer and compère organised the first edition of Ivy...
by Franco Milazzo | Jun 14, 2012 | Features
How long can you sing for? The length of a shower? Or the car ride to work? How about for two whole months? Sounding like something someone living the Dice Life would do, performance artist Greg McLaren decided to sing for over eight weeks. Although this was...
by Ophelia Bitz | Jun 14, 2012 | Features
As the time nears for the première of Guttersnipes, her new collaboration with fellow agitator and columnist Myra DuBois, cabaret rabble-rouser Ophelia Bitz spills the beans on what gets her juices flowing. Creative juices, that is. Inspiration is a tricksy thing....
by Franco Milazzo | Jun 14, 2012 | Features
The Boom Boom Club have had an exciting year. Following their three shows under Waterloo station putting on their well-received brand of neo-cabaret in the Old Vic Tunnels, they appeared overground at one of the high altars of entertainment that is the Royal Albert...
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