by This Is Cabaret | Nov 13, 2016 | Circus
One of the biggest names in world cabaret strolls casually back into town next week as La Soirée opens a new season of shows in central London. Leicester Square, an area largely known for tourists, shops that only tourists would patronise, more tourists and quick...
by This Is Cabaret | Sep 15, 2016 | Burlesque, Circus
An all-male Aussie ‘burlesque show with balls’, Briefs bounds energetically back into London’s Southbank’s quirky London Wonderground. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s gender experimenting plays drew gasps at the Globe and bear pits and brothels lined the...
by This Is Cabaret | Sep 14, 2016 | Circus, Features
Touring the UK for the first time Attached is a fast-paced, energetic and funny circus performance from Swedish company Magmanus. As this impressively skillful duo exhibit their acrobatic agility, it quickly becomes clear that they are hopelessly connected. When one...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 29, 2016 | Circus, Reviews, Theatre
I realised I must have officially become a fangirl when I found myself inadvertently joining in with Famous Seamus and SeanTastic‘s arm-flinging, hip-grinding introductory catchphrase: ‘Lords – Of -Strut! (Mmmmmmm)’. I don’t often find...
by Ed Gosling | Aug 9, 2016 | Burlesque, Circus, Reviews
Outrageous, aggressive, gaudy, crass, confrontational, rude – these are all reasons Finger in the Pie’s Wunderfinger is such a joy to watch. Is this show the best worst taste cabaret to hit the London Wonderground’s Spiegeltent this summer? Probably....
by Ed Gosling | Aug 1, 2016 | Circus, Reviews
Barbu is, at heart, a high energy, chaotic mixture of acrobatics, object manipulation and beards. Especially beards. Based around a great cast of six multi-skilled performers, a clown character and four musicians, it has a range which is thoroughly explored throughout...
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