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Marcel Lucont’s Cabaret Fantastique

With Rod Laver, Silvia Pavone and Jess Robinson

Hay Festival 2025, 

Marcel Lucont (Comedy Central at the Comedy Store, Sky Atlantic’s Set List, BBC1’s John Bishop Show) presents a feast of international cabaret. For one night only, he presents: Rod Laver, the World record breaker and Herald Angel Award Winner; Silvia Pavone, the International circus sensation, as seen on the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony; and Jess Robinson, the Star of The Last Leg (C4), Spitting Image (BritBox) and The Week That Wasn’t (Sky). Cabaret Fantastique has no fixed abode – a cult hit at festivals worldwide, each programme of entertainment is handpicked by Marcel. You’ll be served up a luscious plate of the finest performers from the world of cabaret, comedy, circus, poetry, magic and music, all held together with dry wit and a dry white.

The show has been a sell-out success at Soho’s Crazy Coqs for the past seven years, featuring a different line-up each night, and has been staged at London Wonderground and Glastonbury Festival among others. “Debaucherous, delightful and debonair, Marcel Lucont knows how to put on one hell of a show” PerthNow, Fringe World Festival.