Club Provocaré

Club Provocaré
David Williamson Theatre, Melbourne Polytechnic, Prahran, Victoria. July 5 – 15, 2018.

Straight out of the back alleys of Berlin, Bernie Dieter is the hypnotic and erotic diva of Kabarett and the host of her new show, Club Provocaré.

Feathered and heeled, sexy ease comes at you from all angles. Her raspy voice makes us all swoon, and her songs are controversial and filthy such as the infamous  ‘Lick my Pussy’ number. She is a mysterious black cat with nine lives, who plays the field with her male audience members, as the mood takes her. Dieter is a pure purring svelte feline coercing you into her game, leaving you hanging for more. Superb!

Her cast of eclectic provocateurs are a talented bunch of subversives. Drag superstar Karen from Finance is a mammoth marvel who is ever impressive with massive wigs and colorful and glitzy outfits, parading her miming antics with grandiose passion.

The sexy acrobatic duo Bray and Skopalova exude flexible and supple sensuality and the sharp impeccably dressed beautiful “briefs” boy Karl Kayoss is perfectly calculated in his cutting edge strip tease performance.

Club Provocaré is a star of a show. Itcarries its own shine and pushes the cabaret boundaries forward in true renegade fashion. You cannot surpass Belgium’s burlesque export Laurie Hagen with her provokingly simple reverse strip act. The gorgeous Sachiko Yusura Fukai takes cuteness to extremes loaded with ravishing sexual naughtiness.

Circus and cabaret are an inevitable fusion and Dieter is the perfect accompaniment for the sensational clown, hoop, and acrobatic balance skit by Thomas J Worrell who gives a flawless physical performance.

I highly recommend the experience.

Flora Georgiou

Images: Laurie Hagen (photographer: Ayesha Hussein) and Yusura.

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