Blaque Showgirls

<p>Plumage! Puns! Political incorrectness gone mad! Griffin Theatre Company is proud to present: Blaque Showgirls! A lonely kid in rural Australia fair-skinned Sarah Jane Jones is deathly sure of two things: 1. She's the best dancer in the whole town of Chithole and 2. She's a proud Aboriginal woman. There's very little proof of either of these things. So when a long-lost photograph offers hope of her Indigenous ancestry Sarah Jane high-tails it to the glitziest casino in Brisvegas. Her mission? To land a role in the First Nations burlesque spectacular: 'Blaque Showgirls'... by any means necessary. <em>Blaque Showgirls</em> is Nakkiah Lui's sparkly smart-arsed spoof of the so-bad-it's-good cinematic masterpiece Showgirls. The luminous Stephanie Somerville (<em>Chalkface</em>) fan kicks her way to the front of the chorus line going head-to-head with all-dancing all-diamanted drag icon Foxxy Empire! Co-directors Shari Sebbens (<em>Superheroes City of Gold</em>) and Ursula Yovich (<em>Diving for Pearls Barbara and the Camp Dogs</em>) jam-pack a long-awaited pint-sized rhinestoned arena spectacular into the SBW Stables Theatre in 2023. Nakkiah Lui pivots improbably smoothly from outrageous hilarity to heartrending pain and injustice in a kind of one-two move that hits you in the gut.' <em>Limelight Magazine</em> (for Nakkiah Lui and <em>Blackie Blackie Brown</em>)</p>