Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show returns to London in spectacular style – review
We caught the Fashion Freak Show experience at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall back in 2019, when it made its London debut following its premiere in Paris.
Three years on, and in a new setting of the Roundhouse in Camden, it returns to delight audiences once more. We enjoyed it back then, and we enjoyed it again now – most of the content of the production remains the same, although it has been adapted to the new space, complete with a catwalk which is utilised effectively throughout.
It’s also a bit more of an immersive experience this time around – the performers often exit the catwalk into the auditorium, interacting with those at the cabaret tables or the front rows of the stalls on their way back to the stage.
If you’re not a fan of audience participation, perhaps book some seats a few rows further back. The Fashion Freak Show is unlike anything else on London’s stages right now – it offers a look back at the last 50 years of pop culture, viewed through the eyes of fashion’s enfant terrible.
