Review

review by Katrina Lee

AppreSheAte: Night of Tarot is not the show you expect — it’s so much more. It’s a bold, sensual, and deeply intentional journey that transforms a strip‑club stage into a living altar of story, sisterhood, and symbolic rebirth.

The venue itself might lead you to believe you’re in for something overtly sexual or purely provocative. But very quickly, you realise this show is far more about spiritual and intellectual connection than promiscuity. If you’re heading to Night of Tarot expecting a strip show, you’d be disappointed — and probably far more entertained. What unfolds is thoughtful, cheeky, ritualistic, and surprisingly tender.

The structure is beautifully simple: ten tarot cards, one heroine, and a path carved through shadow, desire, and self‑discovery. Each performer embodies their card with clarity and intention, conveying the message of the story through movement, burlesque, and theatrical expression. The narrator threads it all together, reminding us throughout who we are looking at — and this becomes essential as the symbolism deepens.

There’s something undeniably special about this show. It’s slightly taboo in places without ever tipping into excess, and you can easily imagine how powerful it would be on a theatre stage. Yet there’s also a raw charm in seeing it here, in a venue that wasn’t built for theatre but becomes one through sheer force of creativity.

As I sat there, eyes glued to the stage, I found myself hoping this might be a resurgence of what strip clubs used to be — actual shows, crafted by incredible performers, with the promise of catching them after if you had the coin. Instead, at 8pm sharp, the spell broke and the venue resumed business as usual. A reminder of the world outside the magic.

Still, what the AppreSheAte collective achieves within that window is remarkable. They take a space coded as taboo and fill it with connection, joy, and unapologetic feminine energy. They honour tarot not as fortune‑telling, but as storytelling — a mirror, a myth, a map.

This is the spirit of Anywhere Theatre Festival: artists transforming limitations into atmosphere, crafting worlds from intention and imagination, and inviting audiences into experiences that feel personal and alive.

A daring, enchanting, and fiercely feminine night. Highly recommended.

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