Peaches Does Herself (with a hand from her well-endowed friends)

By Expatriarch On October 28, 2010

Tonight Peaches returns to Berlin’s HAU Theater where she tackled Jesus Christ Superstar earlier this year, but unlike that stripped-down one-woman show, Peaches Does Herself is a balls-out extravagasmic stage production: Half send-up of Mamma Mia!-style pop musicals and half rock concert (her touring band Sweet Machine backs her for many numbers), it amalgamates over twenty songs from her ten-year career into a quasi-autobiographical abstract narrative on love, sex and identity politics.

Aside from a spoken introduction in which a lecturer applies Foucauldian theory to “Diddle my Skiddle” (in German), the entire operetta is performed in song, dance and gesture by a diverse cast: trans porn actress Danni Daniels as Peaches’s swanesque romantic interest, Sandy Kane (the “Naked Cowgirl” of Times Square) as some sort of nympho fairy godmother-turned-competitor, electro-rocker Mignon, Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras, multimedia artist Angie Reed, newcomer duo Jolly Goods and an ensemble of dancers.

photo by Barbara Mürdter – check Popkontext for the full gallery

Never overshadowed, of course, is the dynamic Peaches, whether she’s wailing, spitting rhymes (and blood) or singing falsetto on a string-led rendition of “I Feel Cream”. All this, plus the standard fare like full-frontal nudity, oversize upholstered vaginae and MIDI laser harps.

If that’s not enough to get your clit swelling, Peaches’s Official Blog has offered some behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage with co-director Jeremy Wade and dramaturg Eike Wittrock. Tickets are available through the HAU site, but at press time, all shows except Friday’s appear to be sold out!

Peaches Does Herself – by and with Peaches and special guests
28th, 29th, 30th and 31st October, 2010, 19:30
Hebbel am Ufer 1, Stresemannst. 29, Berlin-Kreuzberg