Venue Ballaarat Mining Exchange, 10 Lydiard Street North
Finucane & Smith’s
Caravan Burlesque
From the sublime to the subversive, the hot to the hilarious…outrageous and unforgettable – London Times
The globally acclaimed salon of seductive, subversive, and electrifying acts is HERE!
From multi-award winning Finucane & Smith, creators of global smash hit The Burlesque Hour, comes a travelling emporium that fuses Parisian nightclub with jaw-dropping cabaret and seductive spectacle, tipping a velvet wink to Australia’s wild past of touring vaudeville & variety. Step into this sumptuous salon and be swept away by intoxicating Ethiopian dance and razor sharp wit, sultry songs & underdressed sirens, whip-cracking dames, Bollywood lovegods, sizzling jazz moves, backroom ballet and gothic divas.
Packed to the rafters with international stars, with critics raving and 70,000 audience members worldwide in raptures, Finucane & Smith’s road-train of the risqué will sashay into town bringing a night to rival the Nullarbor: hot hot hot and full of stars!
So grab your friends, dress to the nines, and swing on board The Caravan. We guarantee you won’t want it to leave…
Audience advice warning: Globally acclaimed multi-award winning work containing nudity, strobe lighting and smoke effects.
Finucane & Smith’s Caravan Burlesque will be the feature event of the Inaugural Ballarat Cabaret (Festival) held across two weekends in October 2012.
CREATED AND DIRECTED BY
Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith
SET AND SALON DESIGN BY
The Finucane & Smith Collective
LIGHTING DESIGN
Marko Respondeck
COSTUME DESIGN
Isaac Lucas & David Anderson
SALON REALISERS
Catherine Carmody & Betty Siemers
AUDIENCE WARNING
Globally acclaimed multi-award winning work containing nudity, strobe lighting and smoke effects.
“Brilliant…uproarious and outrageous
- The Age
“Jaw dropping, feisty, seductive, dynamic… Unmissable.
- Edinburgh Guide, Scotland
“Exceptionally, sumptuously demented
- Voyage France
“Stunning
- Sydney Morning Herald