Distinguished guests – hold on tight as we try to let go.

 

Welcome to the Closure Cabaret, a vaudevillian variety show hosted by Razmatastique – your hopefully devoted, French-accented emcee who cannot let her exes rest in peace. Instead, she summons them back for one final encore in pursuit of that ever-elusive promise: closure.

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From bad-boy playground pirates to wannabe hip-hop stars and emotionally unavailable illusionists, each former flame returns with a glittering cabaret act – jazz-handed into public inspection.

Expect quick changes, original music and riotous audience participation as Razmatastique leads us through an odyssey of romantic misadventure.

Created and performed by Maria Ansdell, this solo clown and character comedy show exposes romance as performance – and heartbreak as something we compulsively replay. Somewhere between a theatrical fever dream and an emotional exorcism, Closure Cabaret prompts the question: out of everyone we’ve ever dated, who really has the ‘Ex Factor’?

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★★★★

“Masterful clowning”

A Youngish Perspective

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★★★★

“One of my favorite performances of Edinburgh Fringe 2025”

Fernyhough Reviews