The Belfast Film Festival is well and truly under way and what better way to launch it into the stratosphere than with a bit of flesh baring, a robot, a bow and arrow and whole lot of glitter?
Friday night in the Black Box saw Tease-O-Rama take on the movies as burlesque performers assembled from all-around the UK and where on hand to draw oohs and aaahs from the admittedly well lubricated crowd! Miss Sarah Firby was also on hand to provide some live music for the the evening as she sung up a storm to start things off.
A diverse range of cinema was represented too; from Soup DuJour’s take on The Hunger Games, to Fabio Ego Deflato’s Top Gun (complete with plane), all the way to Rock Hart’s adaptations (meaning with a lot less clothes than the film versions) of Rocky and The Great Gatsby! Special mention to AZARIA STARFIRE whose renditions of Metropolis and Star Wars where the highlights of the night. Her performance of Metropolis was particularly elegant and poignant in amongst all the other frivolity.
All of the action was introduced by Clifford O’Debts (AKA John Patrick Higgin) whose humour was as dry as the martinis he was apparently sipping all night, but made for a great compere and nicely set each act up and kept the action rolling, even joking that he didn’t do ad-libbing when technical difficulties stalled the acts, when clearly he did! I had a lot of fun at my first (proper) Tease-O-Rama night, having only been to their festival before, and look forward to see them again in a bigger venue as part of the CQAF in May.
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