LA CLIQUE
The star attraction here is the venue, not the performers, though they do their best to compete. Once a water circus, then home to everyone from Houdini to Judy Garland, the Hippodrome has reopened for the performers of LA CLIQUE, who mix variety, circus and cabaret. In other words, they're just what the venue requires, if on a smaller scale: the 100,000-litre pool full of polar bears and sea lions has been replaced by a hunk called David O'Mer, who frolics acrobatically in a bath. And this, it appears, is exactly to the audience's liking. We get Mario, Queen of the Circus (he juggles to Queen songs), and Ursula Martinez, a Spanish stripper from Croydon. They're the highlights of what turns out to be a sharply co-ordinated show, obviously smutty and daft, but none the worse for that. If it's relentlessly camp, it's never tiresome - provided you're in the spirit of the thing, that is. Sitting at the back, or holding back, isn't an option here.
Louis Wise
The Sunday Times
October 19th 2008
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