The Fallent Angels Cabaret - Wed 1 Nov, Spiegeltent
The Arts: Spiegeltent Performance in The Belfast Festival at Queens
The Fallen Angels Cabaret
Comic Sketches, Urban Anthems, Gorgeous Girls, and You!
Following their successful premiere run at the Edinburgh Fringe in the Summer, and hailed in the press as ‘A Triumph’ and ‘Flying the flag for the true spirit of Cabaret,’ the gate-crashing, storm-trooping Fallen Angels are back in Belfast with a Festival Feast of Honest Roguery!
After winning the prestigious award for Best Show at the Dublin Fringe Spiegeltent two years ago, the Fallen Angels began touring nationwide. They made Belfast their first stop and played to a full and delighted house at The Old Museum Arts Centre. They are thrilled about coming back, and this time by invitation to the Festival at Queen’s. They will be performing in the Spiegeltent, a much-loved venue of theirs.
‘If you’re essentially a cabaret animal, you do really feel that the Spiegeltent suits you. I mean, Marlene Dietrich sang there!’ says Anne Lillis, artistic director and the show’s MC, Rose Lawless: a deliciously flagrant, torch-singing, rich-girl-gone-wrong.
In the show, Rose hosts a line-up of bizarre and hilarious characters: Neamhrach the bitter 80s feminist; Fluffy the all-rapping, pregnant school-girl; Daphne Ni Volavont, the sardonic daytime television presenter, and Kevin the in-flight air-host with perhaps a few frills but nothing else to declare – to name but a few. Combine the comic sketches, live music and audience participation with enigmatic performances and an earthy, sensual style, and this ensemble cast of six offers everything an audience requires for a great night out.
But people are sometimes confused: ‘We are occasionally asked whether it is a comedy sketch show, or a cabaret. Not everyone is aware that when Cabaret began in Paris in the late 1800s, it typically combined these elements,’ says producer Anna Fox. ‘We love performing Cabaret in its traditional form, while the material we write is very contemporary and is essentially a reflection of our Times.’
The Fallen Angels Cabaret is on Wednesday 1st November at The Spiegeltent (Custom House Square, behind Albert Clock) Doors are at 10pm and the show ends at midnight. Tickets are £10 & £8. For bookings contact the Festival office on 028 9097 1197 or on-line at www.BelfastFestival.com. Further info available at www.fallenangelscabaret.com or contact Anna Fox on +353 87 2235124
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The Fallen Angels Cabaret
Comic Sketches, Urban Anthems, Gorgeous Girls, and You!
Following their successful premiere run at the Edinburgh Fringe in the Summer, and hailed in the press as ‘A Triumph’ and ‘Flying the flag for the true spirit of Cabaret,’ the gate-crashing, storm-trooping Fallen Angels are back in Belfast with a Festival Feast of Honest Roguery!
After winning the prestigious award for Best Show at the Dublin Fringe Spiegeltent two years ago, the Fallen Angels began touring nationwide. They made Belfast their first stop and played to a full and delighted house at The Old Museum Arts Centre. They are thrilled about coming back, and this time by invitation to the Festival at Queen’s. They will be performing in the Spiegeltent, a much-loved venue of theirs.
‘If you’re essentially a cabaret animal, you do really feel that the Spiegeltent suits you. I mean, Marlene Dietrich sang there!’ says Anne Lillis, artistic director and the show’s MC, Rose Lawless: a deliciously flagrant, torch-singing, rich-girl-gone-wrong.
In the show, Rose hosts a line-up of bizarre and hilarious characters: Neamhrach the bitter 80s feminist; Fluffy the all-rapping, pregnant school-girl; Daphne Ni Volavont, the sardonic daytime television presenter, and Kevin the in-flight air-host with perhaps a few frills but nothing else to declare – to name but a few. Combine the comic sketches, live music and audience participation with enigmatic performances and an earthy, sensual style, and this ensemble cast of six offers everything an audience requires for a great night out.
But people are sometimes confused: ‘We are occasionally asked whether it is a comedy sketch show, or a cabaret. Not everyone is aware that when Cabaret began in Paris in the late 1800s, it typically combined these elements,’ says producer Anna Fox. ‘We love performing Cabaret in its traditional form, while the material we write is very contemporary and is essentially a reflection of our Times.’
The Fallen Angels Cabaret is on Wednesday 1st November at The Spiegeltent (Custom House Square, behind Albert Clock) Doors are at 10pm and the show ends at midnight. Tickets are £10 & £8. For bookings contact the Festival office on 028 9097 1197 or on-line at www.BelfastFestival.com. Further info available at www.fallenangelscabaret.com or contact Anna Fox on +353 87 2235124
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