La Clique

I had heard so many great things about this show that I was very excited to have tickets and after seeing Nonfit State Circus I had quite high expectations. La Clique is a well established Fringe favourite (you have to snap up your tickets early!).

The variety of acts keeps the night moving along at a fast pace, singing, acrobatics, drama and some sex. It's a weird a mix at times and if one act isn't to your liking, the next surely will, its a show with something for everyone.

Some of the favourites were "the rubber man" Captain Frodo, his main trick, to pass through two tennis racquets of ridiculously small diameter, there were several points where I had to look away as swinging dislocated limbs and body piercings were squashed through the racquets. His final act of balancing on a tall line of tin cans with his feet wrapped behind his neck was awesome (I wonder when was the day he decided to come up with that idea and see if he could pull it off!)

Ali McGregor, opera diva gave a haunting rendition of Radiohead's Creep (I don't think I will lisen to the original in the same way again). Los Hermanos Macana do a couple of fabby performances swinging their legs and bodies about with speeds you wouldn't think were possible without ending up in a crumpled mess on the floor. One of my top favourites was the Voluptuous Viktoria Lapidus whose smoozing and flaunting of her assets is complimented by her awesome skills with hula hoops that made most audience members want to rush out buy a hula hoop and try developing their own skills (or was that just me!) (who'd have thought hula hooping could be so sexy!).

The Caesar Twins (bless then they are only 5 foot so dinky) made a guest appearance striking stunning, athletic poses from drapes hung from the tent's roof; while Robert Choinka similar but sexed up routine brings to life anyone who's had a fantasy about a oiled, toned motor mechanic (we all remember that Levis advert, mmmmmm - tighty whities). Stranger fetishes are explored with freakish striptease act Bridge Markland, though this seems more voyeurism than art (this really is a fine line between excitement and being scared out of your wit - thankfully she only terrorised the front row audience members).

The show ended with an act that truly wowed me, Skating Willers. A big Elvis look alike (with far too much hair and fake tan) and a tiny blond (dressed in incredibly small sparkly hot pants) came out and began spinning on a tiny platform at speeds that were truly amazing. One poor girl was plucked from the front row and before she knew it was being spun round at crazy speeds by the two, when they let her down to go back to her seat she couldn't walk as her legs had gone - I think if it had been me I might have been sick everywhere!!

If it comes back next year - you HAVE to go!