by David Lloyd-Davies | May 11, 2015 | Reviews
Summary The Udderbelly late-night standard makes a disappointing return to the big purple tent. The Udderbelly Festival is back and with it comes their weekly cabaret showcase, Friday Night Freaks. In its sixth year, Freaks promises the “most twisted, rude,...
by Lauren Ball | May 2, 2015 | Musical Comedy, Reviews
Summary This take on social media has much to Like but not enough to be a Favourite. Figs in Wigs latest offering Show Off is nothing if not diverse. In a comment on our generation’s shallow digital existence, the act transforms constantly throughout its 60...
by Katharine Kavanagh | May 2, 2015 | Circus, Features
Regardless of the weather, it’s all hotting up on the circus front as summer approaches. Here’s what you’ll find around and about this month. The Udderbelly Festival is underway at the Southbank Centre with Aussie acrobatics from Gravity And Other...
by Ed Gosling | May 1, 2015 | Circus, Reviews
Summary The Udderbelly kicks off a season of circus with a highly competitive show. A Simple Space sees a striped down minimalist set in which Gravity And Other Myths’ seven acrobats explore the potential of the human body in a fun, competitive – and chiefly...
by Franco Milazzo | May 1, 2015 | Burlesque, Circus, Drag, Interview
London Wonderground once again hosts the circus-burlesque-drag-comedy collective that is Briefs. Hailing from Australia, their ever-popular and critically-acclaimed Second Coming is on its third outing at the Southbank venue. The show brings together two of finest...
by Nicola Rainbow | Apr 29, 2015 | Features, Previews
Another year and, thankfully, the London Wonderground is back for another season. Since they left their regular riverside patch last September, we’ve seen the closure of one top London cabaret venue after another after plenty more so we’re currently...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 28, 2015 | Drag, Reviews
Chris Ioan Roberts’ Dead Royal intertwines the stories of Wallis Simpson and Diana Spencer. Roberts plays these two women who never quite made it to the throne despite behaving like a petulant old queen and an empty-headed young one. We sent Johnny Fox and David...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 28, 2015 | Features
It is said that the Devil makes work for idle hands. It makes sense, then, that he must be terribly proud of social media. Figs In Wigs’ latest production Show Off is on that very topic and, having many long hours doing vital research on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram...
by Candace Chan | Apr 27, 2015 | Drag, Reviews
Summary Dublin drag superstar Panti provides an unmissable perspective into her tumultuous 2014. High Heels in Low Places is a stand-up comedy about Dublin drag superstar Panti and her life after what the affair which became known as “Pantigate”. The media tumult...
by Mia Boum Boum | Apr 26, 2015 | Drag, Reviews, Theatre
It’s fitting that Shock Treatment, the equal (yes, equal) to the cult behemoth Rocky Horror Picture Show, is getting its stage premiere at the King’s head Theatre. The stage version of Richard O’Brien’s rather more famous work debuted at the Royal Court Upstairs...
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