Event Type Cabaret
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sat09mar8:00 pmPunk and Plume - Kings, Queens and Inbetweens8:00 pm Event Type :Cabaret,Drag
Event Details
Enjoy an evening of top drag cabaret, hosted by the fabulous Dita Garbo, featuring a variety of acts to entertain and delight. Continue your night after the show with music
Event Details
Enjoy an evening of top drag cabaret, hosted by the fabulous Dita Garbo, featuring a variety of acts to entertain and delight. Continue your night after the show with music & dancing. Guaranteed to be a night to remember!
DITA GARBO
Drag artist, performer, host, producer & educator, Dita Garbo is many things. Returning to Drag in 2021 after 20 years when she first started working as a drag artist in Madrid, she soon started Punk & Plume’s Kings Queens & Inbetweens. Which continues on today to sell out audiences and now also brings you KiKi – LGBTQ+ Club Night.
From hosting events, brunches and prides to educating in schools and working with the local LGTBQ+ community. Dita is a performer at heart, living, travelling and working as a professional dancer around the world for many years. With her years of experience on stage, The love child of Dita Von Teese & Greta Garbo, Dita is our hostess with the mostess.
APPLE DERRIERES
A Drag Queen with a vagina, although no, you won’t see it, Clive. She is an advocate for positive body representation, binning boobie jokes, celebrating vaginas and pioneering period power for all.
She is known for producing and hosting internationally renowned Drag King Cabaret show BOiBOX for almost a decade abreast her on and off-stage spouse, the irritatingly more famous and iconic, Adam All who she performs with across the Cabaret world. Apple has performed internationally in her glittering cabaret career from Ted Talks to Pride stages, from The Royal Opera House to SHE Soho where she hosts the always trending Lesbian karaoke where everyone gets to be a Lesbian because lesbians are cool. Not only a lesbian but a thespian, Apple was superswing in ‘Death Drop’ on the Westend, covering every single role, Drag Kings and Drag Queens alike. She’s thrilled to be back in Folkestone for Punk&Plume’s – Kings Queens & Inbetweens.
ADAM ALL
Adam has been performing as a Drag King for over 12 years and has been instrumental in the growth of the Drag King scene in the UK.
He is the first winner of Pride in London’s ‘Prides Got Talent Cabaret’ and the first ever winner of ‘Best Drag King’ at the 2019 QX Cabaret Awards. Adam was recently referred to as the modern ‘Godfather’ of the Drag King scene in the UK’ and one of the ‘game changers of the London Drag Scene’ in TimeOut Magazine.
Adam recently featured as a speaker for TEDxLondon and TEDxWomen, in national campaigns for Method and ASOS and has featured on ‘This Morning’ for ITV, BBC Newsbeat, London Live and Sky, Channel 4 and ITV News. Adam All is the founder and host of popular Drag King Cabaret night BOiBOX and co-host of the smash-hit Drag King Competition MAN UP! Adam performs internationally and is a huge advocate of the emerging, engaging and empowering Drag King scene. He is a gentle man, can charm and alarm with equal appeal, bringing live vocals and cartoon realness to his dashing geek-chic cabaret. For more information on upcoming shows and to see when Adam is in a town near you, please visit www.adamall.co.uk
FEVER DREAM
The trippy avant-garde mixed race trans drag artist from Folkestone, Kent.
Original from south London, Fever Dream is the darkly comedic alter ego Ilā Kamalagharan – best known as the co-founder of London contemporary voices and Trans Voices, the UK’s first ever professional Trans+ choir – launching with a Guardian Films documentary and recently appearing alongside Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show at The Roundhouse as part of Beyond and Between. Being a choir leader, and having worked as a vocalist with over 20 Grammy winning artists – it should be no surprise that the bitch can sing!
Though she’s no stranger to drag, Ilā introduced her drag persona Fever Dream to the world for the first time at Folkestone Pride 2022 and has since gone on to perform at Punk and Plume, Salty Cabaret and pride events across the South East.
Tickets £16
VIP Package for 2 £60 (includes a bottle of Prosecco & a reserved table)
Doors 7pm | Strictly 18+
Please note that the Punk & Plume VIP tickets are limited to 4 pairs per show. You will enjoy a bottle of Prosecco upon arrival, waiting for you in the foyer bar, along with a front row table, reserved in your name. After the show there is a meet and greet the artists and you can then continue your night dancing to the sounds of our DJ in the foyer bar.
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm
Location
The Tower Theatre
North Road, Shorncliffe, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3HL
Tickets
Book onlineapril
Event Details
Mystique, unravelling the mystery of the life behind the performance. Burlesque, Magic, Circus, Drag; an intimate night of cabaret where you’ll get up close and personal with top class working performers from
Event Details
Mystique, unravelling the mystery of the life behind the performance.
Burlesque, Magic, Circus, Drag; an intimate night of cabaret where you’ll get up close and personal with top class working performers from around the country.
Enjoy our exclusive cocktail or pop that fizz. Mystique is more than a night, it’s an experience. The night will include performances from two artists, as well as interviews & Q&A’s hosted by our resident host drag icon, Dita Garbo, giving an insight into the creativity, planning and work that goes into putting together a new act and hearing about the background of each performer.
Dita Garbo
Drag artist, performer, host, producer & educator, Dita Garbo is many things.
Returning to Drag in 2021 after 20 years when she first started working as a drag artist in Madrid, she soon started Punk & Plume’s Kings Queens & Inbetweens, a drag cabaret night which continues on today to sell out audiences and now also brings you Mystique.
From hosting events, brunches and prides to educating in schools and working with the local LGTBQ+ community. Dita is a performer at heart, living, travelling and working as a professional dancer around the world for over a decade. With her years of experience on stage, The love-child of Dita Von Teese & Greta Garbo, Dita is our hostess with the mostess.
Bettsie Bon Bon
Introducing the ultimate Bump and Grinding Burlesque superstar Bettsie Bon Bon.
With 15 years’ experience under her very rhinestoned belt, Bettsie is a sensual, sassy and saucy delight. Known as the’ body’ of burlesque, she is a classic Burlesque artiste like no other, she encapsulates the sirens of yesteryear perfectly while adding her own gloriously unique twist and flair.
She started her career with Miss Polly Rae and the Hurly Burly Girlys and was co-founder of The Folly Mixtures. She fast became one of the UK’s leading Solo Burlesque Headliners and has glamorously graced the stage at some of the most prestigious stages including Café De Paris, Miss Polly Rae’s Soho Burlesque Club at the Hippodrome, The Savoy and at the London Wonderground with the House of Burlesque.
Bettsie has received numerous awards and accolades including “Best Burlesque Performer” for Burlesque Bible, and No 41 “Best Burlesque Performer” Worldwide in the prominent ‘Burlesque Top 50” vote. With a plethora of highly theatrical classic and modern acts to choose from complete with the exquisite costuming Bettsie is a crowd pleaser of the highest degree.
Symoné
Symoné is a queer alternative circus, theatre maker, and performance artist based in The UK from Washington D.C.
Her performance fuse her movement based skills, such as bespoke high heel roller skates with hula hoops, pole dance, and voguing, in skilled and high energy shows. She is a Guinness World Record Holder, a proud member of Pecs Drag King Collective and always has something up her sleeve to create sensation.
Symoné’s work exists in corporate, commercial and underground clubs all around the world, and is in high demand.
Tickets £16
VIP Package for 2 people £60 (includes a bottle of Prosecco & a reserved table)
Doors 7pm | Strictly 18+ | Unreserved seating
Mystique VIP package for two – you will enjoy a bottle of Prosecco upon arrival, waiting for you in the foyer bar, along with a front row table, reserved in your name.
Time
(Friday) 8:00 pm
Location
The Tower Theatre
North Road, Shorncliffe, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3HL
Tickets
Book onlinejune
sat08jun8:00 pmPunk and Plume - Kings, Queens and Inbetweens8:00 pm Event Type :Cabaret,Drag
Event Details
Enjoy an evening of top drag cabaret, hosted by the fabulous Dita Garbo, featuring a variety of acts to entertain and delight. Continue your night after the show with music
Event Details
Enjoy an evening of top drag cabaret, hosted by the fabulous Dita Garbo, featuring a variety of acts to entertain and delight. Continue your night after the show with music & dancing. Guaranteed to be a night to remember!
DITA GARBO
Drag artist, performer, host, producer & educator, Dita Garbo is many things.
From hosting events, brunches and prides to educating in schools and working with the local lgbtq+ community. Dita is a performer at heart, living, travelling and working as a professional dancer around the world for over a decade. With her years of experience on stage, Dita is delighted to be part of Fierce Queens 2024.
OEDIPUSSI REX
Everyone’s favourite beardy Drag Barbarian, Oedipussi Rex is truly the stuff of Legend. Known for his striking looks, parody songs and powerhouse rock vocals, Oedi has been bringing his unique brand of queer chaos to venues across the land since 2016.
He has performed at numerous festivals (including Wilderness, Bloodstock, Mighty Hoopla and Glastonbury, where he hosts a regular show), Pride stages (Birmingham, Colwyn Bay, London- also podium host), internationally (Reykjavik Burlesque Festival, Oslo Burlesque Festival), and on large west end stages, though he can also be found tooting his kazoo in small queer friendly pubs.
RILEASA SLAVES
Hailing from the Caribbean, this tropical Queen and Attitude magazine cover-girl serves up a Rihanna vibe like no other. She initially burst onto the London stage with alluring sensuality.
Rileasa will provide you a lipsyncing spell-binding performance, and her uncanny resemblance to her celebrity counterpart will make it feel like Rihanna herself graced the stage.
ULA LAH
Fr. slang, an exclamation of surprise, admiration or excitement. Ula Lah is a lip sync artist, signer and all-round sultry clown.
This auburn beauty combines polish, humour and a little bit of heart. After finishing as 1st runner up of Not Another Drag Competition (2022), Ula Lah is making her mark on the UK drag scene with recent performances at Pride in London, Birmingham Pride and as part of the Queerdos Cabaret roster at Wilderness Festival.
VIP Package for 2, £60 (includes a bottle of Prosecco & a reserved table)
Doors 7pm | Strictly 18+
Please note that the Punk & Plume VIP tickets are limited to 4 pairs per show. You will enjoy a bottle of Prosecco upon arrival, waiting for you in the foyer bar, along with a front row table reserved in your name. After the show there is a meet and greet the artists and you can then continue your night dancing to the sounds of our DJ in the foyer bar.
Time
(Saturday) 8:00 pm
Location
Foyer
The Tower Theatre, North Road, Shorncliffe, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 3HL