Spiegeltastic!

15 Aug 06 @ 06:48 PM  category » art

The Spiegeltent has arrived in NYC! What’s a Speigeltent, you may ask? Well, it’s a huge cabaret touring tent with teak walls and a billowing canvas roof, and mirrored glass everywhere. They come from Belgium and there are I think only 13 original tents left in the world. They are used for cabaret/music/theatre shows in Europe, but have never been stateside – until now.

There are all sorts of shows on, and they’ll have a fabulous outdoor beer garden too. The main attraction is the Absinthe show by La Clique. It’s a weird, wonderful eclectic mix – Cirque du Soleil meets a freak show, meets a strip palace - and more. It’s had rave reviews in London, in fact, rave reviews wherever it has played.  And now it is getting rave reviews in NYC.

So I went to the press night with a bunch of friends, since a mate of mine is involved with it. And it was brilliant, hilarious and surprising. This one is a winner...