Driven by his love of German cabaret and French chansons, Tom taught himself the accordion in the late 1990s, and immediately started to compose songs in a style best described as “gypsy vaudeville”. In 1998, together with French guitarist Sebastien Guerreau, he formed the band Fantasmagoria, with whom he has travelled extensively through Europe, playing […]

White Mischief is a one-night indoor festival bringing together the most unique live bands and some of the country’s best vaudeville performers. Over four rooms and two stages we feature more than twenty different acts, from headline band British Sea Power to the award-winning 1927 Cabaret. On the way there’s DJs and dancing; costumed walkabout […]

Filling White Mischief’s Lobby Room with awe-inspiring ambient sound and exquisite performance of the unlikeliest kind is Skinphony, the human orchestra.
Skinphony is an original Victorian-styled show of intriguing beauty. The show is enchanting, with instruments artistically made from old machinery and metal, each instrument a piece of art in itself, the instruments are attached to […]

A hitherto unseen contraption has arrived at Scala. Like the Tardis, its interior is rather different than one would expect from the outside. Indeed, it’s a lot cosier inside than out. Welcome to Ginger Roger’s Time Galleon, in which Edwardian Space Pirate Ginger Roger will be taking intrepid White Mischief adventurers on excursions through time.
Depending […]

You may recognise Mat Fraser - musician, writer, actor - from the C4 drama “Metrosexuality”; the BBC series “Doctors”; his award-winning documentary “Born Freak”; his provocative ad for Virgin Mobile; his touring show “Sealboy” or more recently as Puck in Kaos Theatre’s update of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.
We’re delighted to announce that this absurdly talented […]

Ophelia Bitz - who wowed the Dr Sketchy room at our last White Mischief - joins us once again on November 10 with a performance on our second stage “Moon Room”.
Bitz is a compere, broadcaster for everyone from Channel 4 Radio to Resonance FM, performance artist, comedienne, muse, events promoter,  writer and cabaret performer specialising […]

Guests at our last White Mischief will recall the hilarious Dr. Sketchy room, where passers-by were urged to pick up pencil and paper in order to draw a motley assortment of vaudevillians. The room’s hosts were Ophelia Bitz and Dusty Limits, and we’re overjoyed to announce that both will be returning to White Mischief “From […]

B-movie vixen Trixie Malicious is the living embodiment of Mae West’s quip about “a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.” Of Canadian descent, the former showgirl now finds herself very much at home on London’s vaudeville scene, and will be bringing her own brand of bump’n’grind to White Mischief’s second stage […]

Voted Best Female Performer at the UK Burlesque Awards 2007, Red Sarah combines her love of costume theatre with circus skills to perform dazzling acts which ooze charisma. Sarah will be performing a specially-commissioned brand new act on White Mischief’s main stage.

With no fewer than five awards under its belt so far, “Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea” by new theatre group 1927 Cabaret was the runaway success of this year’s Edinburgh Festival fringe. The sell-out show will soon be taken to New York for an off-Broadway run and is currently wowing audiences at […]