Back and better than ever, the Cabaret Zingers column lines up for your delectation our recommendations for coming week. 

See fire artist Preacher Muad'dib attempt a new Guinness world record on Monday.

See fire artist Preacher Muad’dib attempt a new Guinness world record on Monday.

Zinger Of The Week: The Double R Club, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Thursday

Dark, disturbing and definitely not for the delicate, The Double R Club has given London more nightmares than a metric tonne of Cheddar. For the last three years, it has provided transgressive treats to a loyal audience who has lapped up its Lynchian-styled brand of variety.

Host Benjamin Louche’s barbed tongue is worth the ticket price alone and the bill is rarely less than exceptional. This month or another, we urge you to find out for yourself why last week this cabaret institution has won the prize for London Cabaret Awards’ Best Ongoing Production for the last two years.

And, if you do go, be on your best behaviour: you don’t fuck with the Double R Club.
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TONIGHT: Firebreather Preacher Muad’dib will be trying to add a new Guinness world record to his collection as part of a charity night at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. See him headline a bustling line-up of burlesque, magic and music.
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From Monday:  Award-winning New York-based cabaret singer Lady Rizo begins her residency at the Soho Theatre tonight. If you missed out on our competition to see this, she’ll be performing here until 9 March.
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From Wednesday: Tour de Force’s immersive take on classic novel The Great Gatsby was a complete sell-out last year. If you missed out, it is now back at Wilton’s Music Hall from Wednesday until 23 March.
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On Thursday: If you only had 240 seconds to prevent global destruction, what would you do? Producer Nathan Evans returns with I Love You But We Only Have Four Minutes to Save the Earth in which ten performers describe how they would unfuck the world. And, no, that’s not a word we use lightly.
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On Thursday: Hear and see the sights and sounds of tomorrow tonight at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern! Lisa Lee’s UnderConstruction features over a dozen short pieces emerging acts and their more established fellows trying out something new.
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On Friday: musical entertainer Miss Hope Springs returns to the venue she inaugurated last year. She’ll be doling out comic finesse and just the right amount of poison to the Crazy Coqs crowd from 7pm.
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On Saturday: Get those dancing boots on and head down to Upper Street for some blistering Balkan vibes courtesy of DJs the Roustabouts. They’re joined at House of Wolf by a revolving bill of burlesque and circus folk.

Still not sure? Get your lugholes around this mix from Roustabouts member Markabre Charade while hunting those boots down. They’re probably under the sofa.
http://soundcloud.com/markabre/diaspora-electronica
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On Sunday: Kiss the weekend goodbye with chuckles and tunes from Four Femmes On The Thames. The harmony quartet will be at Soho’s Spice of Life welcoming new member Femme Fussy plus Femme Foreign and the Femmidoms to the fold.
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What other events are worth shouting about? Leave details in the comments for the world and your mother to see. If we like them, we’ll add them to future Zingers.

Photo credit: Gui O’Connor exclusively for This Is Cabaret