It's the old, familiar cry: 'There's just not enough science in cabaret these days!' Okay, not such a familiar cry but a worthy notion all the same. Tom Baker's new show Professor Staymayr's Exposition of Wonders brings a spirit of scientific enquiry together with dashes of steampunk, spiritualist Victoriana and a bit of smut and crooning. As our host Staymayr, Baker flirts with an Austrian accent and snips of Schroedinger; it's fun but he's far funnier as HP Lovebox (above), Cthulu rock god from another dimension. His version of Creep was... something else. The other highlight was Amundsen and Slade's Sonic Sideshow – the duo have designed their own jerkin-like suits containing numerous sound files they can play with a tap, from animal noises sampled from the audience to movie fight effects. Good science. You also get Fancy Chance riding a dildo-equipped rocking machine and old-school bullet-catching and mind-reading from the Irrepressible Mr Flay.
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