A LIVING HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN BURLESQUE @ FACTORY FLOOR

SAT 11 FEB @ 8:00PM

Price: $30.99 + BF (Over 18's)
Bookings: (02) 9550 3666
Tickets: On sale now @ The Factory Theatre; Buy tickets online

The History of Australian Burlesque

In 1843 a burlesque performer raised her skirts to the mining towns of Victoria, they showered the performer with gold nuggets. Abe Saffron had some of the most notorious strip clubs in the world- and the performers are still alive to tell their tales.

Witness footage of Australia’s fastest tassel twirler from the 1960s. The eighties and nineties saw the evolution of what was once the most hardcore performance niche on the planet- in Sydney… And our own legendary Elizabeth Burton used to stop the war when she performed in Vietnam for the troops.

These and many other incredible tales will unfold as Australia’s Queen of Burlesque, Imogen Kelly, takes you on a trip through time to unearth Australia’s secret history of burlesque legends.

Performances By:

Marrisa Yeo as Lola Montez

Lola The Vamp demonstrates the Victorian way

Gypsy Wood a tribute to Norman Lindsay

Imogen Kelly Tributes Pauletta Perry “The Ostrich Girl” from the Tivioli

Tasia and The Go-Gettes as The Whiskey Girls

Jeanette Luke of Whiskey A Go Go Fame

Lilikoi and Kim Kaos

Birdman on the Mic

Doris Goddard of B-grade Hollywood movie star fame

Cindy Pastel the inspiration for Pricilla Queen of the Desert

Lauren La Rouge sharing the Mic

Christa Hughes of Machine Gun Fellatio

Glitta Supernova of Gurlesque

Judith Lanigan of Go Go Burlesco

Tiger Lil of Tarnished

And finally Elizabeth Burton – Australia’s Grand Empress of Striptease!