Wicked Women Comedy Cabaret
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Julia in Gigs
Performing with Wicked Women was great fun, not least because it gave me an excuse to get up on stage dressed like a massive tart.
I worked alongside the Founding Mothers of Wicked Women, Kathryn Bendall and Lisa Rathbone, to see this great project develop from a loose gathering of female comics doing stand-up at the Roxbury Hotel to my last show with the group - an all-singing, all-dancing, star-studded extravaganza at the Hornsby RSL, with burlesque dancers, feature acts Amanda Gray, Amelia Jane Hunter and Jackie Loeb, and the inimitable Fiona O’Loughlin as MC.
I’m not sure why the comics decided to join the very talented burlesque dancers in removing some (not all, lord no!) of their clothes in a distinctly talentless fashion at the end of the night. I’m pretty sure Fiona had something to do with it. The general consensus was that it wouldn’t have happened if Kitty Flanagan - our excellent MC at the previous gig – had been in charge.
I look forward to working with all of these ladies of Australian Comedy again in the future.
