by Franco Milazzo | Jan 30, 2014 | Reviews
Let’s get the party started: this new Saturday show is a brilliant, high-flying addition to the London cabaret skyline. The Cafe de Paris’ Showtime is the successor to the Wam Bam Club. Photo by Lisa Thomson. The Amazing Ari certainly lives up to his...
by This Is Cabaret | Jan 28, 2014 | Reviews
Facebook stalking, an awkward ceiling and over-efficient email: these are just some of the trials and travails faced by Scottee and Rachel Porter as they worked on The Worst Of Scottee. Below, Porter goes deep into the fascinating story behind the eponymous...
by Kate Kelsall | Jan 27, 2014 | Reviews
In our latest review from the London International Mime Festival, we cover a highly unusual show in which a solo performer uses a boxing ring as both stage and prop. There is something terribly poignant in a person’s hand slipping from their own knee as they attempt...
by Kate Kelsall | Jan 24, 2014 | Reviews
The London International Mime Festival continues at the Barbican this week. Anatomia Publica by Man Drake is a tale of a post-war threesome told through physical theatre. Choreographer Tomeo Vergé has wild eyes and a seductive flickering gaze: her three minute spoken...
by Franco Milazzo | Jan 18, 2014 | Reviews
Mime may not be an obvious genre that comes to mind to some when thinking of cabaret. They should think again: last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival gave its highest comedy awards to not one but two of cabaret’s silent sons in The Boy With Tape On His Face and...
by This Is Cabaret | Jan 14, 2014 | Burlesque, Interview, Reviews
It’s fair to say The Folly Mixtures had a rather super smashing sparkling 2013 and are looking forward to a rather splendid 2014. With Wam Bam leaving Cafe de Paris last year, the brand new Saturday night extravaganza Showtime Cabaret there will feature the...
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