Forever Crazy Flaunts

Forever Crazy is London's latest answer to glitzy and oh so glam. Crazy Horse Paris have pitched up along South Bank with a ten strong Caberet of show gals, it’s decadent it's fabulous! These ladies certainly have the mooooves, zowie! Toned to within an inch of g-string each with a, slightly given, on stage persona that make every act more artistic performance and less seedy strip tease. 

Strip though they certainly did, to an audience of bedazzled couples, lovely lady groups and then, unfortunately, one rowdy horde of STALE mates. Men well past their prime and well without manners or I'd bet: morals. Think gaunt ex-rock star types mixed in with senior city bankers- total booze hounds quite literally hounding the stage. Oh and by the way when did it become ok to roar lines like 'chocolate sandwich twice!' Ah that's right it didn't. Epic fail you dirty old perve!

Such calls to mind the matter of men's degradation of women and nudity, both those women who choose to bare themselves publically/ professionally and those who do so in the privacy of their own environment. Is it sexual female empowerment and assertiveness that some find so threatening? Is the female body threat enough to reduce women to sexual objects using insulting language rather than considering any intelligent, worldly capacity that we have?

Don't even go there, Kate Middleton scandal, I have no comment just utter admiration for our Duchess and disdain for tabloid tossers cashing in. Grace Dent knows the tune, and I'm singing it too! Now at the risk of going all out Ferminist on you, it's worth mentioning Naomi Wolf right about NOW. In her new book Vagina she discusses language about the vagina and how it has been sexually insulting and abusive through time. I have not read it yet, but I have an inkling that she may just be onto some new gender theories. We all know that, as women WE ARE the whole package, and do in fact run the world. Viva La Vagina!

The above (rage) may be contradiction to the fact that I did willing waltz, along with my gal pals, into the boudoir-themed erotica of Forever Crazy. A risqué show that says in diamante 'God bless bare skin', a show that applauds female sexuality and nakedness but for me and most: the artistic, performative talents of women. Shimmying their way through to December the Forever Crazy show is a sparkly spectacle that is definitely worth seeing, plus it makes you wanna pout and flirt out with a little Peggy Lee.