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La Soirée to return to the West End in November

The circus is coming back to town ten years on from opening in Leicester Square

La Soirée will open on 16 November
La Soirée will open on 16 November
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La Soirée is returning to Leicester Square this November, ten years after its original opening at the Hippodrome.

The Olivier Award-winning cabaret will spend its seventh Christmas in the capital, setting up in a Spiegeltent until January 2017.

The acts joining the show will include burlesque queen Ursula Martinez, and acrobats The English Gents who will also perform their bubble-blowing and pole dance acts.

Creative producer Brett Haylock said that after a year of touring the world with the show, "we decided it was time to come home".

"We're pitching a tent (literally) on the doorstep of our former base in the middle of Leicester Square and bringing our variety of twisted, saucy entertainment back to the centre of town!"

Spanish cabaret trickster Ursula Martinez will be giving audiences one final chance to see her infamous red hanky trick in London, alongside a plethora of other circus tricks.

The English Gents (Denis Lock and Hamish McCann) will bring their cordial gentleman acrobatic act, which will see them perform whilst puffing on a pipe and reading a newspaper in 'typical English fashion'.

La Soirée runs in Leicester Square from 16 November until 8 January.