Ladies Please

Movie
Audience Score
10
Ladies Please
NR 48 minDocumentary
Ladies Please is a rare and stimulating insight into the bohemian world that is drag and into the professional and personal lives of three of its most innovative drag performers Cindy Pastel Strykermeyer and Lady Bump whose lives inspired the feature film The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert Taking traditional drag cabaret far beyond the tits and feathers of Shirley Basseyinspired female impersonators through their eyes well be taken into their world In an age haunted by the spectre of AIDS we will see how these Drag performers act as both court jester and social commentators Though drawing from Japanese kabuki and prewar Berlin Cabaret they exhibit a uniquely Australian larrikin spiritContainer
DirectorAndrew Saw