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Thoughts on Alice in Sexyland

Mar 28, 2009 00:14

Last night my_daroga, friends and I went to see an Alice and Wonderland burlesque.

( Inside: not so sexy times, sorry. This is mostly just about what we saw and what it could have been. )

david copperfield kind of crap, fandom: alice

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kita0610 March 28 2009, 07:44:09 UTC

I wanna be Alice and have sexy times with the ginormous cat. Wait. That's Narnia. Never mind.

Sorry your burlesque show was a bummer. I have seen a couple of amazing shows, and I wish everyone on my FL could have shared them.

anonymous March 28 2009, 10:44:12 UTC

Like Miyuki-chan in Wonderland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPRnKLvJJFE) only burlesque.

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my_daroga March 30 2009, 16:49:09 UTC

ROFL

Well, that's just for you, but I am sad to report they were girls, and of rather traditional build.

I'm sure tkp has things to say, so I will content myself with the observation that I love this discussion and I'm not sure that it applies, anymore, to burlesque. I think what we're "looking for" (to the extent that we're actually looking for it) is something more along the lines of narrative erotica. I'm not sure the defined parameters of burlesque would "allow" for the sort of thing that's being discussed. Which isn't to say they shouldn't be redefined.

vampire_cookies March 29 2009, 15:56:53 UTC

Are you familiar with Alan Moore's graphic novel Lost Girls? After reading yours and my_daroga's posts regarding your current fixation with naughty Alice, I thought it might be worth mentioning.

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Girls

I myself haven't read it (never wanted to) though I know my good friend Chatastic has. Can't remember what she had to say about it other than "Yikes." =P

my_daroga March 30 2009, 16:46:46 UTC

I've picked it up, but I was put off by the drawings (I don't need giant genitalia, really, in my erotica) and by the fact that I didn't get the sense it was terribly thematically related to the girls in question, but merely used them. Sort of the way I thought LXG (I only read the first volume) could have been better if the gentlemen in question were more in character and not just "ooh, hey, I could fit him/her in!"

my_daroga March 30 2009, 16:45:09 UTC

I have not kept up with my flist! I am sad, especially re: yours.

Anyway, the idea re: the dominatrix thing is awesome. And I think it points to what this really needed, which was a journey. I don't even really care what it is. Alice, here, doesn't seem to learn anything. She behaves as though she is learning, but nothing changes (I guess one could interpret the shadow-Alice becoming blond, and the mirror-self breaking free of her at the end, but whatever). The routines here were held together by costumes suggesting the characters, and a few puns, rather than anything that really thematically related to Alice at all.

In short, it could have been SO much better. I think I would have been turned on by the increasing intensity of the scenarios, even if they weren't particularly things I was interest in. However, I wonder if that exits the realm of burlesque (with the emphasis on comedy) and enters porn or erotica or something like that.