Bourgeois and Maurice have returned to Brighton Fringe’s Spiegeltent to teach us How To Save The World Without Really Trying. 

Opening the show, Bourgeois states, “I don’t know about you, but I feel like Earth is having a bit of a wobble lately. Sort of Britney Spears circa 2007”, and this sets the scene for their glorious, glam-rock-alien cabaret performance. 

Bourgeois and Maurice are a fantastical combination of David Bowie, The Mighty Boosh and Rocky Horror as they sing about politics and offer solutions to the mad world we live in. It was snazzy, fun, ironic, absurd and relevant all at once. It’s never too self-important and it doesn’t take too many sides, it simply points out the irony of modern life. 

Their costumes were impeccable, excessively sequinned and reminiscent of Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era. Bourgeois’ voice only added to the Bowie aesthetic as he belted out his intelligent lyrics and cocky one-liners. 

They explored topics like online opinionating, armchair activism, Brexit and the hypocritical superiority of Britain. Bourgeois offered a new national anthem about selling arms to terrorists, stealing foreign antiquities and fish ’n’ chips, while Maurice screamed that we should kill all men - before being told this was too far and discriminatory against cisgender white males, by Bourgeois, of course. 

So, will you learn how to save the world? No. But you will have a lot of fun partying with Bourgeoius and Maurice in the meantime, and that’s much more fun.

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