by C.J. Lazaretti | May 14, 2012 | Reviews
Burlesque doesn’t get more Olympic than this. 13 artists from nine countries met at Bush Hall to compete for the World Female Crown, the top award at Chaz Royal’s World Burlesque Games. Accomplished routines delivered with confidence and panache were the norm: more...
by Myra DuBois | May 14, 2012 | Interview
Not all cabaret performers spend their evenings bathing in champagne or eating caviar straight off an exhausted hooker’s body while the phone rings and rings in the background. This week we hear from someone straddling the first rung of success. Dear Auntie...
by C.J. Lazaretti | May 14, 2012 | Reviews
Bush Hall is Chaz Royal’s battlefield of choice. The habitual setting of the yearly newcomer’s contest, it also housed the “female crowns” of the all-competitive World Burlesque Games. Preceding World Female Crown, its international counterpart, British Female Crown...
by C.J. Lazaretti | May 13, 2012 | Reviews
At last London cabaret gains a chorus line. In a box stage. With curtains. But more importantly, an eclectic programme of bawdy song, dance and comedy in true music hall style to make the most of all those bells and whistles. Inaugurating a new performance space atop...
by This Is Cabaret | May 12, 2012 | Features
Over the last 18 months, we’ve watched monthly variety event Heart & Lung Unit grow and grow from its Brixton origins to its current West End location. Ahead of their latest show next Monday, one of the “soul cabaret” crew’s founders Glenn...
by C.J. Lazaretti | May 12, 2012 | Features
The Marxist sexual perversions of musical comedy duo EastEnd Cabaret have caused uproar everywhere they’ve performed, from Whitechapel dives and gentlemen’s toilets to the Edinburgh and Adelaide festivals. As they prepare for their biggest gigs ever at the Priceless...
by Franco Milazzo | May 11, 2012 | Reviews
Pitched at the halfway mark of the World Burlesque Games, the festival’s all-male event drew a packed crowd to a humid Royal Vauxhall Tavern on Thursday night. This was not the first night this week in which men featured prominently: on Tuesday, Kiki Lovechild...
by Franco Milazzo | May 11, 2012 | Burlesque, Photos
Although we have already reviewed the show, words can only go far to describe the deviance on display at the World Burlesque Games’ Twisted Crown as the likes of V.J. Spankie, Monsters of Schlock and eventual winner Big Chief Random Chaos gave the audience more...
by C.J. Lazaretti | May 10, 2012 | Reviews
The “twisted” night of Chaz Royal’s burlesque festival is an institution in its own right. Forewarning is foretasting – the knowing audience laps up the weirdness like breast milk (ew, strike that). From the minute host Benjamin Louche opens with an eerie singing...
by Tricity Vogue | May 10, 2012 | Features
Ukulele songstress Tricity Vogue interviews singer and porn-peddler Ophelia Bitz on the limits of public interaction in cabaret There’s a man kneeling at my feet on the Bluestockings’ stage. Tonight I think I’ll try a new position, to keep things fresh. I wonder if...
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