La Clique
From: Thursday, 2nd October 2008
To: Saturday, 27 June 2009
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Synopsis
A sexy, funny and dangerous experience, La Clique is a melange of cabaret, new burlesque, circus sideshow and contemporary variety. The show has taken the world by storm.
Our Review:
13 October 2008
Variety is the spice of life, and it doesn’t come much spicier than the cabaret line-up in La Clique, an agglomeration of acts familiar to Edinburgh Festival Fringe-goers over the past few years but mostly new to London. One hundred and eight years since it opened, the Hippodrome has been reborn as a home of freakish spectacle.
Some of the acts are fairly astonishing, even if the show as a whole lacks any kind of accumulative momentum and is seriously, almost fatally, under-compered. Enjoyable and enthralling from moment to moment, an air of random accident prevails, and the lack of live music also ensures a Friday night is karaoke night sort of atmosphere.
Still, it is wonderful to be back inside a venue I had not visited since its days as the Talk of the Town, somehow managing not to penetrate Peter Stringfellow’s gaudy dance floor. The place is a riot of red plush curtains, nooks and crannies, multiple bars and the show is magically projected from t...
Latest User Review
Gareth James - 4 May 2009:
I think it must be running out of steam. I found it rather tame and mainstream, and not particularly good value for money. Some of the acts were very good but it didn't all fit the La Clique 'brand'. Oh for the days of Archaos - proper alternative circus / variety....
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La Clique Productions (Producer)
Mark Rubinstein (Producer)
Mick Perrin (for Just for Laughs) (Producer)
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