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Fascinating Aida - The Cheap Flights Tour

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
From: Wednesday, 29th February 2012
To: Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Our Review: starstarstarstarstar

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Synopsis

Wit and music from some very talented ladies.

Our Review: starstarstarstarstar

Anne Morley-Priestman - 29 February 2012

Way back in the early 1980s, in a performance space carved out of an Islington pub’s upper room – now it seems like another galaxy as well as another time – I reviewed a new all-woman cabaret group called Fascinating Aida. It was sleek, tuneful, blisteringly clever – and had the audience on its side right from the first note to the last laugh.

We were 20 years’ distance from sophisticated West End theatre revues such as Cranks and Pieces at Eight, but this came over as something quite new, not at all retrospective or nostalgic. Now – fast forward the better part of three decades. Co-founder Dillie Keene with [Adèle Anderson] and new recruit Sarah-Louise Young pack out traditional theatres and cavernous multi-purpose venues with the same sense of style and wit as in 1983.

It’s more elaborate now, of course, with elegant costumes, a sound system, full stage management and subtle lighting. The targets are...

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