Which was the 3 hour long Burlesque show in Nelson. Which I can't rate highly enough, because nowhere else in the world would you see something like this. The support of the audience, the utterly off-the wall acts, the enthusiasm for every act - regardless of gender, persuasion, age or body style. And, like the last theatre production I saw here, completely off-the-wall, over-the-top batshit crazy, and an audience ranging in age from 20 to 80 and everyone enjoying themselves like it's the most normal thing in the world. Easily 30 or more performers from as far away as Calgary and Seattle, all for a $20.00 ticket. It doesn't get better than this - you might get a more finished play or performance, but never would you get the absurd and outrageous acts - that generally were the hits of the show - the same process that "finishes" theatre too often finishes it in the other sense, takes off the edge and makes it bland and homogeneous. Not here, not by a long shot. 5 Stars.
This place is Paradise.