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''La Clique'' is a cabaret/
variety show Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a comp ...
with Australian roots first conceived for the 2004 season of The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was originally performed in The Famous Spiegeltent with a small circular stage at
fringe festival Fringe theatre is theatre that is produced outside of the main theatre institutions, and that is often small-scale and non-traditional in style or subject matter. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Kemp, Robert, ''More that is Fre ...
s, but since 2008 it was also performed for extended periods in permanent theatres keeping the same characteristic stage.


Notable Performers

German
Cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining o ...
diva, songwriter, and performance artist Bernie Dieter, Guinness World Record breaking contortionist Captain Frodo, Australian-born actress, dancer and cabaret performer Meow Meow, British-born performer and self-taught sword swallower
Miss Behave Amy Saunders  also known as Miss Behave, is a British-born producer, performer, comedian and curator. She is a self-taught sword swallower and performs in cabarets. Career Saunders is mostly known as a sword swallower. She has broken the Gui ...
and Irish musician, vocalist, and actress
Camille O'Sullivan Camille O'Sullivan is an Irish musician, vocalist, and actress. O'Sullivan is known for her unique, dramatic musical style and covers of artists such as Radiohead, Tom Waits, and David Bowie. As an actress, O'Sullivan has appeared in Mrs Hend ...
.


Awards

* 2009: Nominated fo
Les Globes de Cristal
La Meilleure Comédie Musicale 2009 (''Best Musical or Comedy'') for the Paris 2009 season. * 2009:
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Family Show is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 197 ...
for the London 2008/09 season at the
Hippodrome, London The Hippodrome is a building on the corner of Cranbourn Street and Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster, London. The name was used for many different theatres and music halls, of which the London Hippodrome is one of only a few survi ...
. * 2005: Brighton Festival Fringe Best of The Fringe Festival award.


Seasons

* Edinburgh Festival Fringe, United Kingdom; August 2004 * Brighton Festival Fringe, United Kingdom; May 2005 * Edinburgh Festival Fringe, United Kingdom; August 2005 *
Melbourne International Arts Festival Melbourne International Arts Festival, formerly Spoleto Festival Melbourne – Festival of the Three Worlds, then Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, becoming commonly known as Melbourne Festival, was a major international arts festi ...
, Australia; October - November 2005 *
Adelaide Fringe Festival The Adelaide Fringe, formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival, is the world's second-largest annual arts festival (after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Between mid-February and mid-March each year, i ...
, Australia; March 2006 * Brighton Festival Fringe, United Kingdom; May 2006 * Edinburgh Festival Fringe, United Kingdom; August 2006 * Just for Laughs festival, Montreal, Canada; July 2006 * New York, United States of America; August - October 2006 * Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia; October - December 2006 * Sydney Festival, Australia; January 2007 *
Auckland Festival Formerly known as Auckland Festival, Auckland Arts Festival or is an annual arts and cultural festival held in Auckland, New Zealand. The Festival features works from New Zealand, the Pacific, Asia and beyond, including world premieres of new wor ...
, New Zealand; March 2007 * Just for Laughs festival, Montreal, Canada; July 2007 *
Dublin Fringe Festival The Dublin Fringe Festival is an annual curated arts festival in Dublin, Ireland focusing mainly on theatre. The festival allows artists to submit their work via an application which is subsequently reviewed by the programme manager. The festiva ...
, Ireland; September 2007 * Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia; October - December 2007 * Edinburgh Festival Fringe, United Kingdom; August 2007 * Sydney Festival, Australia; January 2008 * Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia; March 2008 * Edinburgh Festival Fringe, United Kingdom; August 2008 * Dublin Fringe Festival, Ireland; September 2008 *
Hippodrome, London The Hippodrome is a building on the corner of Cranbourn Street and Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster, London. The name was used for many different theatres and music halls, of which the London Hippodrome is one of only a few survi ...
, United Kingdom; October 2008 – June 2009 * Sydney Festival, Australia; January 2009 * Auckland Festival, New Zealand; March 2009 * Just for Laughs festival, Nantes, France; April 2009 * Aarhus Festuge, Denmark; August 2009 * Dublin Fringe Festival, Ireland; September 2009 *
Bobino Bobino at 20 rue de la Gaîté, in the Montparnasse area of Paris ( 14th arrondissement), France, is a music hall theatre that has seen most of the biggest names of 20th century French music perform there. During its long history it was also ...
, Paris, France; September 2009 – June 2010 *
The Roundhouse The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England. The building was erected in 1846–1847 by the London & North Western Railway as a roundhous ...
, London, United Kingdom; November 2009 – January 2010 Gardner, Lyn (13 October 2008
"La Clique"
''The Guardian''.

Showzam! Festival of Circus, Magic and New Variety
Blackpool, United Kingdom; February 2010 * Adelaide Festival of Arts, Australia; March 2010 * Stockholm Kulturfestival,
Gröna Lund Gröna Lund (; "Green Grove"), or colloquially ''Grönan'' (), is an amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the seaward side of Djurgården Island, it is relatively small compared to other amusement parks, mainly because of its central ...
, Sweden; August – September 2010 * Pécs, Hungary; August 2010 * Aarhus Festuge, Denmark; August – September 2010 * Lund, Sweden; September 2010 * Halmstad, Sweden; September 2010 * Umeå, Sweden; September – October 2010


External links


La Clique website


References

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