
Entertainment
Opens Thursday 2 October 2008
Booking until Sunday 1 February 2009
| Week day | Matinee | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 6:00pm | |
| Monday | 8:00pm | |
| Tuesday | ||
| Wednesday | 8:00pm | |
| Thursday | 8:00pm | |
| Friday | 8:00pm | |
| Saturday | 8:00pm |
Running time 2 hours
A cult show at the Edinburgh Festival, La Clique makes its London bow at the Hippodrome, hoping to wow audiences with its bizarre, sexy and outrageous mix of cabaret, circus, burlesque and contemporary variety.Impossible to define, La Clique has an ever-changing line-up, a motley assortment of weird and wonderful acts that on any one evening may include a Norwegian contortionist, a cabaret strip-artist, a Russian hula hoop expert and muppets from Montreal. Other acts who make appearances with La Clique include London's very own Miss Behave - a larger than life, PVC-clad cartoon character with a fetish for swallowing pointy objects - and Mario, Queen of the Circus, a veteran of the New York alternative comedy scene who resembles an uber-cool leather-loving reincarnation of Freddie Mercury. La Clique has found an appropriate home in the Hippodrome, a venue steeped in the history of variety. Constructed by Frank Matcham in 1900 as a water circus, the venue's early performers include