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Motel Bed – A Pillow Princess Fantasy

Welcome to the Motel Bed, where queer fantasies meet murder-mysteries and shit hits the fan. 

Pretty Poison Cabaret 

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“Motel Bed – a Pillow Princess Fantasy” is a new creation by The Pretty Poison Cabaret”.  

The piece is a deconstructed queer cabaret that takes place in and around a turning motel bed. The bed acts as a scenographic and performative center point, a turning stage where 6 cabaret performers move between acts of singing, dancing, storytelling and acting.  

“We are in a nameless motel, in the bed where many bodies passed through. The satin sheets are shiny pink, the bed frame is lush and decorated. A queen size bed – 6 queens of the night – 6 cabaret artists of the sheets. A place where Intimate memories of many different bodies and times interweave and mysteries unfold…”   

The piece explores themes of intimacy, love, desire and identity through a non-linear structure that involves and engages the audience. Spectators are invited to move between being voyeurs and participants in a performance that bends genre expectations and explores the intersection of private and public. 

Biography

“Pretty Poison Cabaret” is a queer, feminist, and migrant performance project based in Amsterdam. Led by choreographers Peter Scherrebeck (They/Them) and Karina Villafan (She/Her), the project explores cabaret as a powerful artistic language and space for interdisciplinary knowledge, critical thinking, and community-building. Pretty Poison`s work bridges nightlife with art institutions, galleries, and theatre spaces. Inspired by Latin American and French cabaret traditions, Pretty Poison challenges conventional norms while celebrating the power of collectivity, art and radical self-expression. 

credits

Pretty Poison Cabaret: Mavi Veloso, La Uyi Ihasee, Kat Staub, Misty SuperdeLuxe, Karina Villafan.
Concept and Dramaturgy: Karina Villafan and Misty Superdeluxe
Performance and Co-creation:  Mavi Veloso, La Uyi Ihasee, Kat Staub, Misty SuperdeLuxe, Karina Villafan.
Scenography: Bloom Bloom Entertainment. (Alex Popescu, Gabe Swart, Chris van den Hogen)
Scent Advise: Frank Bloem
Design: Nanda
Sound and Lights: Fitgirl
Costume advise: Solame
Outside eye: Diane Mahín, Oliver Artur
Production support: Rūta Junevičiūtė.
Funded by: Amarte Fonds
Supported by: ICI CCN, Montpellier and Culture Moves Europe

Thanks to Theater de Richel, Dance Space Destiny, Farnoosh Farnia, Willem van Rossum, Lana van der Brug, Parisa Madani.