Behind Burlesque with Isabella Bliss

Send us Fan Mail Burlesque looks effortless when it’s done well, but the real story is what happens before the spotlight hits. I’m Isabella Bliss, and I’m joined by the brilliant Lindsay McGlone, a producer, performer, and stage manager with over a decade in the burlesque and cabaret industry. From her very first show as a stage kitten to building rooms where marginalised voices are centred, Lindsay brings the kind of grounded honesty that makes you rethink what “performance” really means.&nb...

Send us Fan Mail What if fear was a pool you could swim in? We sit down with The Madame—Brighton’s glitter-dipped force of nature—to trace a life built from courage, community, and craft. From a conservative childhood in Zimbabwe to earning icon status on the south coast, she unpacks how drag and burlesque became both art and antidote: a way to rewrite internal scripts, set hard boundaries, and choose joy over ego. Across an hour of candour and wit, we map the evolution of a persona and the ...

Send us Fan Mail The room decides where the act goes—that’s the electric promise of cabaret. We sit down with performer, writer and director Alexander Lutley to map a journey from actor training and Madrid mime school to global stages, unpacking how a silent clown named Pi and a silver-tongued host named Mercury grew from the same creative core: authentic play with the audience. We dig into what burlesque really is—la burla, satire, and liveness—and why the art doesn’t exist without the crow...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 1: Jessabelle Thunder – Beyond the Glitter, Into the Truth of Burlesque Glitter doesn’t tell the whole story. In this very first episode of Behind Burlesque with Isabella Bliss, I sit down with Jessabelle Thunder — Miss Exotic World, Reigning Queen of Burlesque — to trace a path from a hesitant first class to global stages. Together we uncover the craft, courage, and community that make burlesque so much more than feathers and fishnets. Jessabelle shares the truth beh...