Tag: burlesque

Circa’s Peepshow: Welcome to the Unnatural!

Prepare to be taken into the darkest corners of your mind on an almost hallucinogenic trip through Circa’s Peepshow, now playing at the Theatre Royal, Sydney. Circus and burlesque have come a long way since the Big Top experience, and…

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Herstory: Burlesque at Factory Theatre

Australia’s uncrowned ‘Queen of Burlesque’, Imogen Kelly, brought her hit sexual satire, Herstory – Leading Ladies, to the Factory Theatre for two nights only on June 14th and 15th. Billed as a ‘romp with pomp through some of history’s most…

Soultrap Revue: Burlesque

Soultrap is a slinky, underground bar on Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. Once a month, they clear the tables to make room for a variety of scantily clad, feathered-and-sequined burlesque dancers. While I missed most of the whole first act while…

Pigalle Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival’s ‘Pigalle’ – a burlesque/cabaret tour-de-force

Every now and then, a show comes along that blows all your preconceptions out of the water. ‘Pigalle’ is one of those shows. A cabaret-circus-music-burlesque extravaganza, it’s the centrepiece of Sydney Festival‘s Festival Gardens programming in Hyde Park. We’re huge fans…

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‘Burlesko Bizarro’ at Casula Powerhouse

To launch their 2018 season, Burlesko Bizarro at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre offered a night of debauchery and seduction. Gird your loins, eyes, ears and voice boxes because you’ll need a chair for this one… Going to my very…

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Sydney’s September Top 10 Events

At a loss for what to do now that spring is finally here? Don’t fret, we, as usual have you covered with our list of September’s best events. Grab your diary/calender/phone and let’s get to planning your best month yet….

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Burlesque Idol at Oxford Arts Factory

Burlesque Idol. How to begin describing that evening. Waiting for the show to start was an experience in itself as the audience began to arrive. They filtered in fairly quickly, in groups adorned in sequins and leopard print, immaculate high heels…

A night at Club Swizzle a.k.a. the coolest club in town

Complete with bartending acrobats, a roller skating ukulele player, and a woman with pelvic floor muscles so powerful she can play a kazoo with her vagina, Club Swizzle is everything you never knew you wanted to see. If this is…