Sydney Reviews

Crude, rude, kinky and slinky, La Clique combines vulgar vaudeville, bizarre burlesque and exquisite circus.

This 20th Anniversary show boasts a bunch of artists old and new with a variety of acts and antics, some downright salacious and silly, others with awesome athletic skill and unabashed performance prowess.

The spectacle gets underway with statuesque Tuedon Ariri splish-splashing in an aerial bathtub routine that gives hair spray a new meaning, her mermaid mane a main attraction in a clean-up act that is worth the price of admission.

Sword swallowing and fire eating is the forte of Heather Holliday, an oesophagus flexor of flame and blade, sabre and fluoro tube, a deep throat threat of gullet gulping delight.

Tara Boom, proclaimed problem child of cabaret and La Clique’s Queen of Chaos, dazzles with a dizzy, ditzy striptease hula hoop routine with an eye-popping crackpot popcorn making accessory. In delicate contrast, she performs a no mean feat foot finessing umbrella manipulation, that has a pedi-curious hypnotic effect.

Original cast member, Ursula Martinez, combines striptease with magic, with a nothing up her sleeve, sleight of hand and vanishing clothing act that’s bare arsed spry.

Another veteran of La Clique, Mario Queen of the Circus, acts as a lynch-pin, go between with ribald patter and audience incitement to participate in his passion for the rock band, Queen. Juggling to Another One Bites the Dust is a clown prince performance, while his enthusiasm for We Are the Champions culminates as an audience chorus master.

Additional aerial and balancing acts are provided by Mirko Köckenberger, Lj Marles, and David Pereira.

This milestone season of La Clique presents an evening of unadulterated, adults only fun, flash trash and plenty of flesh, thrills, frills, and spills in an infectious and intoxicating blend of burlesque, cabaret, circus and modern vaudeville.