Aerial trapeze artists, acrobats and drag acts set to star as Cabaret club arrives in Sunderland

Glass Cage Cabaret founder Autumn Conlin and producer Emma Bloomfield talk about their new show.

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00:00 Can you tell me where the idea for a cabaret night came from?

00:04 Yeah, I kind of had the idea because there's nothing really like that in the city.

00:08 I mean there's similar venues in Newcastle but nothing in Sunderland.

00:13 And really I wanted to showcase the talent that we've produced in the city.

00:17 I wanted to focus on local artists, local performers in any kind of discipline

00:23 whether it's dancing, singing, aerial, circus, acrobats, whatever.

00:29 And I wanted to showcase that in the city because I've been working with them for a long time.

00:34 We've produced some incredible talent and I think people need to see them

00:38 and they need to be celebrated because they're great.

00:42 Can you give me a flavour of what the night's going to be like then?

00:45 Yeah, we're going to have a real old style variety show really.

00:52 So as Orton mentioned we are going to have circus artists including aerialists

00:58 so for people who don't know what that is, that's people hanging from the ceiling

01:03 basically on trapezes if you think about that kind of thing.

01:10 We're going to have some acrobats, we're going to have singers, drag queens

01:16 and burlesque artists as well.

01:20 I understand the venue's going to be done out in a particular style as well?

01:24 Yeah, so we really wanted an Orton, really wanted an old style, music hall type feel of a venue

01:33 so that's why we picked the Masonic Temple.

01:37 We're also going to have seating done out like a cabaret show

01:41 so round tables, everyone sitting together as opposed to a theatre style venue.

01:46 I know it's one night initially but do you hope this becomes a permanent event?

01:50 Yeah, definitely. I really want to make it a regular night in the city

01:54 whether that's monthly, quarterly, weekly, hopefully.

01:58 So we just want a place for people to come in and leave the world outside

02:03 and just really appreciate some great local artists.

02:07 If people are interested in coming along, what should they do?

02:10 Visit the website, it's glasscagecabaret.co.uk

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