Little Death Club at Underbelly Festival | Review

Welcome to the darkest, funniest and most debauched kabarett club this side of Berlin!

Following a smash-hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe, über-award-winning kabarett superstar Bernie Dieter and her travelling family of misfits, miscreants and fantastic freaks are back for an unmissable night in the Spiegeltent.

A gin soaked, Weimar-punk jazz band, breathtaking circus and fire-breathing sideshows – this is kabarett at its most inappropriate and provocative. A drag queen draped across the bar, a morose mime drowning his sorrows in a bottle of red, and a bearded lady dancing in the shadows as Bernie sips her gin and surveys her club and her prey.

There is no fourth wall, no rules, and no seat is safe in this dark and defiant den of iniquity. Welcome to the Little Death Club where you can be whoever you want to be…

Little Death club is a cabaret show for the freaks, geeks and downright bizarre amongst you that provides the overall message that not only should you be your own weird self, but that is exactly what the world needs.  

This show has everything, from the sassy drag queen to the sexual humorous host, to the incredible gender-bending contortionist and a whole, not more.  Little Death Club uses its short 60-minute show wisely with every second being full of energetic, wild and surprising fun. You never know what is going to come next but you can ensure it will be sexy, humorous and totally out there!  

The host of this delectable cabaret show Bernie Dieter keeps a firm control over the events of the evening and really breaks down the barriers of the audience, pushing through the uncomfortable to get onside of even the coldest of weekday audiences.  She oozes sexuality and the audience hangs on her every move.

Some acts are fully formed spectacles, others are short punch line gags, but they all pull together to provide an evening of pure wild, rawkus entertainment with the energy of a runaway train.  How does that old joke go? An angry Mime, a bearded lady and a naked ballerina walk into a bar and well….they create a fantastic show!

Grab a bunch of your closest misfits and head down to the Southbank to catch this while you can.  Little Death club is on until the 23rd of June at the Underbelly Festival, Southbank.  Tickets start from £21.50.

Tickets were complimentary in exchange for review