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Variety 101: Making Sense of Cabaret, Burlesque and All That Jazz
It’s in the news, the movies and, more importantly, in arts listings everywhere: cabaret and burlesque are definitely big. But they’re also easy to take for granted. Are the two words synonyms? What...
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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...
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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...
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Review: The Boy With Tape on His Face
If audience participation is the mainstay of the cabaret diet, then The Boy With Tape on His Face is a lavish feast of unpredictable entertainment. Relying on little more than backing tracks, props and...
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Moo! Udderbelly Festival Returns In April
Contains no traces of horse or pork DNA. Very few venues resemble the results of dropping LSD in the middle of a GCSE biology lesson. With that in mind, we welcome back the giant upside-down purple cow...
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The London Cabaret Festival: Curtainraiser And Fundraiser Rolled Into One
Curtain up on the one and only London Cabaret Festival – diverse, maverick and strictly no pompoms. Hosts Lili La Scala and Mat Ricardo oversaw a bonanza of vaudeville delights. The inaugural London...
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VIDEO: Cabariot Returns And This Time Its A Cabarevolution
Written by Mannish. the Cabarevolution video brought together many of the stars of the London Cabaret Festival. Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, a slip of a girl stands on a balcony and ponders...
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The Hebden Bridge Burlesque Festival Is Back!
The Hebden Bridge Burlesque Festival 2015 opens its doors next Thursday for four packed days of shows, workshops and more. We look into what this shining jewel of the UK burlesque scene has to offer....
View ArticleLatitude Festival Announces Line-Up For Comedy & Cabaret Tent And It’s...
Festival tents may be the antithesis of cabaret’s usual urban haunts but this year’s Latitude line-up is an enticing prospect. The Latitude Festival will return to its usual Suffolk pitch from 14-17...
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