by This Is Cabaret | May 2, 2014 | Circus, News
Being imaginative and subversive sorts, most charity efforts by cabaret performers are a little different to the usual fun run or cake bake. This year, we’ve already seen a variety show in the West End and a boundary-pushing burlesque event. Preacher...
by This Is Cabaret | May 1, 2014 | News, Variety
International rap star Snoop Lion announced this week plans to open his own cabaret extravaganza in Las Vegas. No, it’s not April Fools though we wouldn’t blame you for checking. Those looking forward to the Doggfather donning a lounge suit and crooning...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Apr 30, 2014 | Circus, Features
Circuses come out with the sunshine and, now Spring is truly upon us, we have a fine crop to pick from this month. The Udderbelly Festival is back on the Southbank, where stylish ensemble Gandini Juggling will continue to impress until the 18th with Smashed, and...
by Victoria Carlin | Apr 30, 2014 | Circus, Reviews
In their debut show Triptych, circus company Bikes and Rabbits demonstrate an unusual affinity with objects. Where a heeled shoe appears, solo performer Alice Allart sees a swinging club, a head of lettuce becomes a rhythmic gymnastics ball. Oddity inhabits this...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 30, 2014 | Previews, Video
Before Benjamin Louche and company unleash the latest fundraising, 1980s-celebrating, all-singing and some-dancing C30, C60, C80s Go! next Thursday, the award-winning frontman gives us a guided tour through his aural recollections of that era. The 1980s were an...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 29, 2014 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Circus, Variety
Seaside filth may be something of a British tradition but, thanks to a packed cabaret programme, Brighton will be dialling up the fun factor throughout May. So who would we see down by the sea? Bourgeois & Maurice: Sugartits Sometimes it feels that this twisted...
by Ed Gosling | Apr 28, 2014 | Circus, Reviews
Part lecture, part performance, Beta Testing is full of in-jokes and geeky reference points, but told in an inclusive way that makes sure the audience is at all times part of the action. Much of the show is proving to the audience that there is no trick in the tricks,...
by Nicola Rainbow | Apr 28, 2014 | Features, Interview
As the falsettoed singer of The Tiger Lillies, Martyn Jacques is one of cabaret’s darkest princes. He’s already spoken to us about his life living above a Soho brothel but, with The Tiger Lillies due to return to the London Wonderground next month, we...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 27, 2014 | Features
Ah, is not a universal truth that the path of true love never did run smooth? Who hasn’t accidentally swiped left on Tinder instead of right? Or, possibly worse, swiped right instead of left? Whether you are looking for the absolutely right person or a person...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Apr 25, 2014 | Circus, Reviews, Theatre
Appearing at the Roundhouse as part of Circusfest 2014, Puffball is a complicated show to critique, as it was developed partly as a social circus project, and partly as a professional production. There is an apparent theatrical naivety to much of the direction, giving...
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