by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 19, 2015 | Cabaret, Reviews
Walking into the Spiegeltent on this sunny Edinburgh morning, I’m greeted by the sight and sounds of a roomful of people producing jazz-hands to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. About half are under 5 and the remainder cover the spectrum of carers and family members...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 18, 2015 | Cabaret, Editorial, Features
Every Thursday this festival season, Ben Walters – previous Cabaret Editor at Time Out, and now reviewer for The Scotsman and blogger at nottelevision.net – will be hosting the Chinwag, a panel session with some of the top performers at this year’s...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 18, 2015 | Cabaret, Reviews
My festival treat to myself, I caught Camille O’Sullivan performing on her brief six day stand at the Fringe singing the songs of Jaques Brel, known for his masterful ability to capture the human condition. The stage in the town hall venue is waiting under...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 14, 2015 | Burlesque, Circus, Drag, Reviews
This Is Cabaret Rating: ★★★★★ Briefs is no stranger to the London Wonderground’s Spiegeltent and the ensemble of boylesque, circus and drag performers are back in the capital showing Marika Rauscher exactly why. As opening numbers go, Briefs‘ is...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 14, 2015 | Features
It hasn’t been a great year so far for those cabaratti wanting to win trophies. The London Cabaret Awards shut up shop a few weeks ago announcing that it had “no plans” to continue which could be something of a mixed blessing. At the Edinburgh Fringe...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 13, 2015 | Musical Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
Doilies, red satin, Tom Jones and free food prepared before our laughing eyes… Welcome to the oddball world of Jojo Bellini, and Australian performer who is, as she tells us, ‘just an ordinary girl. Sort of.’ Channeling her Welsh heritage on her...
by Mia Boum Boum | Aug 13, 2015 | Burlesque
This Is Cabaret Rating: ★★★★ A counterpart to her Hippodrome residency, Miss Polly Rae’s Between the Sheets is a show on a much larger scale. Tonight, we’re at the London Wonderground’s Paradiso Spiegeltent on the South Bank, arguably a more appropriate venue...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 13, 2015 | Features, Video
When The Double R Club goes to the London Wonderground, something quite special happens. The Lynchian-themed soiree is renowned for its particularly crepuscular take on cabaret. Everywhere, the commonplace is made creepy and the creepy commonplace. Sometimes, though,...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 12, 2015 | Features
The Independent may have their view on burlesque but we would be surprised if their columnist Imogen Harris popped in to see Elsie Diamond’s Edinburgh Fringe show The Sensible Dresser. If Harris did, she would have seen a performer who was more than...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 11, 2015 | Cabaret, Circus, Variety
So where would one start, reviewing cabaret, in Edinburgh…? A show that celebrates the best of traditional and modern Scottish culture in the beautiful Assembly Gardens’ Spiegeltent sounds like a no brainer. And what a treat Le Haggis turns out to be! The...
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