About Us

As a "Radical Feminist Burlesque Collective", we are all writers, performers, and directors. This means that our performances are as diverse as our members, with song, dance, comedy, poetry, and more besides.

Our diversity also allows us to take in a wide variety of queer feminist perspectives - we are kinky and vanilla, monogamous and polyamorous, transgendered and cisgendered, lesbian, bisexual, and straight. We are students, we are professionals, we are activists.

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Meet the Lashers

Sebastienne: Founder Member

Best known on-stage for writing and performing You're the Top, and off-stage for endless energy, enthusiasm and encouragement, enabling excellence from everyone. This is all, in some oblique way, Sebastienne's fault. She's not sorry.

Annalytica: Joined November 2008

The first Lasher to join Sebastienne's crusade, Annalytica brings incisive political thought that is inexpressibly valuable to a group like ours. The songs she writes are intricate and complex, and she sings them with thoughtfulness and intensity.

Galla: Joined February 2009

The queen of choreography & song-writing, Ms Téa rocks behind the scenes almost as much as she does on stage. She can always get a rehearsal going with an embarrassing drama game, or lift a song from funny to fantastic with her dance ideas.

Lilka: Joined October 2009

First a fan, then a Lasher, Lilka is the perfect embodiment of "Don't Dream It, Be It". Writing and singing with a tremendous strength and power, we are all very happy that she has chosen to live the dream with us!

Sally: Joined October 2009

Sally doesn't get a stage-name, because her stand-up persona is far too raw and honest for the burlesquey pretensions indulged in by the rest of us. She also writes songs, with a lyrical genius honed by the works of W.S. Gilbert.

Carlotta: Joined January 2010

Writes as well as she sings - check out Love Story, which always gets the audience blubbing! Carlotta is designated the "real world liaison officer" as she is the most able to cope outside our little bubble of sex & politics.

Itcia: Joined March 2010

It could be said that we picked up Itcia when we happened to play at her uni's Ladyfest.. but it would be more honest to put our hands up and admit that she was at school with Sebastienne. In the few months she's been with us, she has slipped so easily into Lashings that it's like she's been here since the beginning.

Florestan: Joined March 2010

Florestan chanced upon the lashers at a cabaret and lept on them as soon as they finished their final number. Almost swallowing her moustache in excitement, she quite rightly suggested that we might have use for a female baritone with an ability to harmonise absolutely anything.

Silvestre: Joined June 2010

After seeing him as Dr Frank N Furter at Queer Cabaret, we knew we had to have him. It wasn't until June 2010, after starring as Angel alongside Sebastienne in a sell-out production of RENT that 'Bambi-does-Ru-Paul' hopped aboard this runaway freedom train and didn't look back...

More bios coming soon!

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