LA CLIQUE is as outrageous as it claims to be and all the better for it. With every quirky act there comes a zest for the surreal and the audience just can't get enough of it.
The recently reopened Hippodrome provides the ideal setting for this fusion of the burlesque and circus. In her striking red PVC dress Miss Behave blends in perfectly with the extravagant backdrop. No time for niceties, she dips into the crowd, spits in wine glasses and twists pointy objects through her tongue. And that's just the interlude.
Freddy Mercury obsessed Mario Queen of the circus is an equally entertaining compere. His peak being a crowd surf to We Are the Champions - so naff it comes round full circle. Hilarious.
Norway's Captain Frodo doesn't shy away from the absurd. His double jointed physique means he can bend his entire body through tennis rackets. His balancing act sees him climb up a tower of increasingly small upturned buckets; nail-biting stuff.
Stripping magician Urusala Martinez, of Croydon, may leave little to the imagination as far as her naked form is concerned but where she hides that hanky is still a mystery.
But the highlight of the show comes courtesy of David O'Mer. Twisting through ropes and landing in a bath of water, he is mesmerising to watch. And the tongue-in-cheek spurting of water from his mouth finishes things off neatly. Yulia Pikhtina's hula hoop act is also enchanting.
There's something for everyone in LA CLIQUE, providing you are over 18. But you've got to see it to believe it.
A Night Out
29 October 2008
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