Review: Apple Cart Festival: Cabaret Tent

Review: Apple Cart Festival: Cabaret Tent

Do cabaret and wellies go together? The second edition of The Apple Cart festival at Victoria Park held eight unflinching hours of non-stop mayhem in its cabaret tent, under non-stop rain. It was a muddy affair. Literally as well. Rising popular demand for variety is...
Audience Participation: Heroes or Zeroes?

Audience Participation: Heroes or Zeroes?

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...
Public Abuse

Public Abuse

Cabaret must be the last true refuge for freedom of expression and spontaneity in a world obsessed with political correctness, health, safety and all those topics that were little more than nonsense mere decades ago. Of course that means it’s also the right...