Seance & Sensibility for the FT Unconvention
By unusual invitation, The Victorian Values cast will be in attendance in the University of Westminster on both days of the forthcoming Unconvention - hosted by The Fortean Times. Here, they will also unleash a new work as the concluding item on Sunday’s agenda - Seance & Sensibility. Starring Lord Dashwood, this scene delivers a cautionary tale of meddling with the unknown…
The latest installment of critically acclaimed Victorian Values (a series of classical burlesques) will be ‘unveiled’ on Sunday 2nd November. Written by Mark Carter (Lord Dashwood) and Kirsty Allan (Kitty) this scene is performed by a stunning array of Ministry of Burlesque supremos so prepare to witness the ‘Cabinet of Death’!
The Unconvention is a series of lectures and demonstration on all matter (and anti-matter) of weird world activities - from conspiracy theory to life after death and parapsychology, it’s an academic weekend of the strange. Don ‘t be a stranger…
Introducing: Seance & Sensibility or Coming out of the Cabinet
In the spirit of demon-stration (puns intended) Madam Kitty is presenting her dashing and daring not-so-heroic cohort, Lord Dashwood as he attempts to prove the power of Spiritualism by ‘lifting the veil’. In this presentation “Coming Out of the Cabinet“ Lord Dashwood will invite audiences to experience the phenomenon of spirit channelling via the rigorous wonders of the new fangled Spirit Cabinet.
Warning: Caution must be invoked for Lord Dashwood’s brand of mystery often finds many a purse or gold pin missing-in-action and more so, the virtues of one’s daughters…
Featuring the veritable talents of: Lord Dashwood, Mr. Jim Devereaux, Mr. Desmond O’Connor, Miss Vicky Butterfly, Miss Pearlie Gates, Doyenne Miss Gypsy Charms, ‘Kirsty L Allan (aka Kitty) and of course, those of the other side…
Background info to this unusual request:
With curious campaigns and an eccentric troupe of performers, neo-Victorian entertainer Kirsty L Allan (aka Kitty) is founder of the notorious Ministry of Burlesque and captain of the classical burlesque revival. As a champion of both avant-grade art and science, she is also no stranger the world of the weird.
As a double graduate in psychology and with an academic background in parapsychology, Kitty was the last student of the late Prof. R.L Morris of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit and, was a formal paranormal investigator for the SSPR.
After gaining notoriety in the press and media for both her academic and artistic proclivities, she is now based in London and oversees the expansion of her eccentric entertainment empire where she writes, directs and performs.
Tags: 19th century burlesque, british burlesque, classical burlesque, ministry of burlesque, musical comedy, seance show, spirit cabinet, traditional british burlesque, victorian burlesque, victorian spiritualism, victorian values
