Cabaret

The Effing and Blinding Cabaret performed on March 20 at Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre to a sold out audience. The show was massively well received, with nearly all the audience staying afterwards for a question and answer session with the cast. The show has been so successful that the funders Black Country Touring have included it on their menu of shows for other venues to book in the region and requests have already come through from Sandwell.

Next the Cabaret played to a full-house (with a waiting list) at French restaurant in the dark, Dans Le Noir, Clarkenwell London. This was a return to the venue for the cast, who first cut their cabaret teeth here last year. The content of the show changed for the themed night on Wednesday 23 April, taking Shakespeare's birthday and St Georges day as a springboard into an evening of surreal design, where Alan Sugar appears to order his apprentice’s to deliver a successful show for these diners in the dark, or they will all be ‘fired!’ The show was so successful that the restaurant have booked the company in to present another cabaret on Friday 4 July, obviously with an American Independence feel this time - Extant and Dans Le Noir will also be submitting our novel partnership to the Arts and Business 30th awards this year, so fingers crossed…!

In June the cabaret will go to Finland for the Cross Over Festival held in Helsinki - A two-day international festival of disability arts. The festival organisers are covering flights, board and accommodation for the Effing and blinding cabaret to attend the festival from 3-7 June.

On September 5th the cabaret plays on Walk The Plank’s moored boat at Albert Dock for the DADA Fest 2008 City of Culture in Liverpool. Extant is also currently negotiating for an end of year cabaret show to be held at an East London venue in early December… More on this soon!