Since their debut on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1998, The Ladyboys of Bangkok have had a two method love affair with Scottish audiences. Repeatedly filling their customized constructed dwelling, the recent pink Sabai Pavilion yearly, they’re at the moment on tour honing their newest spectacular Glow Up on a UK theatre tour earlier than their customary month future within the capital.
If ever there was an act that didn’t want a glow-up it was this one. This is an all-out extravaganza. A mixture of live performance, cabaret and comedy carried out by a legion of stunningly lovely performers clad in an astonishing array of essentially the most spectacular costumes you’ll see on a UK stage.
With gender politics very a lot on the forefront of present dialog, The Ladyboys have ploughed their very own furrow. Choosing to not interact in any political debate, they do what they do – entertain. They lip synch and dance with an vitality that’s astounding to an array of excessive vitality pop hits by the largest divas within the trade. There’s numbers from Kylie, Gaga, Beyonce, Tina Turner, viral earworm APT, Eurovision traditional Euphoria, Rocky Horror and Moulin Rouge segments and naturally, their signature tribute to Scotland with The Proclaimers 500 Miles and a rousing Loch Lomond that has the viewers on its ft screaming the lyrics on the prime of their lungs. The programme is relentless, the vitality eye-watering.
While there are some mildly bawdy moments and a few light viewers harassment, by humorous girl Ole (clad in flip as Tina Turner, Carmen Miranda Frank N Furter and a leprechaun) it is a present with extensive enchantment. The range of the viewers is testomony to the present’s recognition, and boy do the viewers find it irresistible. The excessive vitality of the efficiency transmits t0 the gang, there’s singing, cheering, whooping and hollering from the get go.
While many viewers members come initially out of curiosity, they maintain coming again 12 months after 12 months as a result of sheer high quality of the present and this 12 months’s providing doesn’t disappoint.
If you’re in search of an escapist night time away from the mundanity of each day life, a visually beautiful, euphoric celebration of being who you need to be, then that is the present for you.
Continues to tour, then in residence on the Festival Fringe in August | Image: Contributed
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