IN a show like no other, The Empire Strips Back takes the classic characters from the beloved Star Wars film franchise and drops them into the world of burlesque.
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After sell-out tours of the original production, Star Wars Burlesque, the producers are back to meet the audience demand with an even bigger and better
production, The Empire Strips Back, which is set to start its Australian tour at the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre on Thursday, March 13.
The Empire Strips Back is designed to indulge audiences in a sci-fi fantasy of intergalactic proportions – George Lucas could never dream that his characters could be used in such a manner, guaranteed to get some hearts racing with The Force.
In 2011 Russall S. Beattie created the first run of Star Wars Burlesque in Australia, and the show has gone beyond all expectations.
Since then it has travelled the country and has delighted audiences of more than 20,000 people.
Still, the show was designed for a small stage, and feeling like they had never taken full advantage of a full theatre stage, nor realised the ideas that were just a pipe dream for the original show, the producers destroyed all the props and costumes in May 2013 and started rebuilding a new show from scratch: The Empire Strips Back: A Star Wars Burlesque Parody.
The Empire Strips Back is firing on all
cylinders to exceed the expectations from the previous production, with a full size remote controlled R2-D2 by the same people who worked on the Star Wars films and custom-made character masks to bring to life characters that have only ever existed as puppets or CGI.
Creative director Russall Beattie said they’ve taken everything up a notch.
“Not just in scale but also in quality, everything is as close to the movie version universe as possible, from a full size R2-D2, casting a Han Solo in Carbonite and having a seven foot Wookiee.”
Tickets are $59 for adults from www.bmec.com.au or phone 6333 6161.