Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother. Except, this fairy godmother is more likely to say ‘bibbity-bobbity-f-you’ than turn a pumpkin into a silver carriage. She’s not magical, she doesn’t really care about her spoilt princess clients and she wakes up with her wild hair, her nightgown inside out and blowing raspberries…
Imagine if women weren’t just stuck playing Juliet and Desdemona and Lady Macbeth over and over again. What if, beyond those most famous roles, they wouldn’t have to play countless mothers and sisters and lovers: sometimes nameless, more often simply shapeless…
Female spies are a largely overlooked, misrepresented and underestimated part of history, but cabaret performer JoJo Bellini took to the stage at Sweet Werks to rectify this. Bellini performed a one-woman cabaret show about female spies in history…