Reviews of Sabrage at London’s Lafayette

"This slick cabaret with saucy pillow fights is good unclean fun"

"An irreverent mix of erotic trapeze, penis tricks and audience participation won’t disappoint groups out for a laugh – and a gasp"

"With a plucky eight-strong company throwing themselves joyfully at the material, Sabrage is a fine example of its genre. Group bookings up for a laugh, and a gasp, won’t be disappointed."

"The two-hour show is hosted by double act Remi Martin and Spencer Novich, the one a sexy Frenchman performing Piaf tracks with his penis, the other a bendy American whose Lee Evans-alike physical comedy, scored to a mixtape of pop-culture soundbites and loud tunes, is a highlight."

"That’s all good unclean fun to submit to, as is the tightly choreographed bumping, grinding and stripteasing, lit and scored with booming basslines more redolent of MTV than the Kit Kat Club."

"I can’t promise Sabrage will pop your cork – but it’s a very easy show to enjoy."

"Red-hot comedy cabaret”"

"Exuberant and raunchy blend of circus and burlesque, perfectly framed in this intimate venue"

"... Sabrage is a happy fusion of circus, cabaret and burlesque that sits very easily in this surprisingly well-appointed central London venue."

"Maidment’s astute direction pieces together some first-class, disparate acts that genuinely pull together as a company, but the real trick here is Sabrage’s immersive nature. From the ubiquitous audience participation to aerialists sweeping over the auditorium, filling the punter’s glasses with champagne. The audience get to be part of the act"

"Much of the staccato soundtrack is lip-synced to perfection, with the notable exception of the fiercely talented Rechelle, who slithers seductively through the auditorium while crooning the Eartha Kitt classic Champagne Taste. Circus acts, from Emma Phillips’ sensational juggling to Flynn Miller and Kimberley Bargenquast’s gravity-defying aerialist routine, seem heightened in this intimate space."

"It’s good to see some equal-opportunities burlesque taking to the stage, with high-octane routines choreographed with steely precision by Kevin Maher."

"What Maidment and his company deliver is a red-hot comedy cabaret that never forgets that its audience is there primarily to have fun."

"An onslaught of flexing, frotting and twerking"

"Sabrage has landed in King’s Cross with some dazzling of circus and burlesque routines but audience participation demands too"

"If you like seeing hardbodies in underwear perform circus acts and burlesque routines while lipsynching to Edith Piaf and the Scissor Sisters, this studiedly louche show will be right up your alley."

"... the latest attempt to bring faux-raunchy cabaret to the capital and it’s got more technical finesse – and a fitter cast – than its predecessors."

"As with all such shows it’s more tease than strip, and I’d personally like more acrobatics and less audience humiliation."

"There’s more skill in the second half, which kicks off with an equal-opportunities nudie routine involving bath towels that approaches the tongue-in-cheek coquetry of Paris’s famous Crazy Horse club."

"... the defining image of the show involves aerialist Kimberley Bargenquast, who straddles a pole fixed on a centre-stage pivot, and skims on it over the stalls and under the balcony, pouring champagne into our glasses."