The Motel Bed - a Pillow Princess Fantasy

Pretty Poison Cabaret received a grant for the development of a new performative project. The Motel Bed - a Pillow Princess Fantasy is a deconstructed queer cabaret that takes place in and around a turning motel bed. The bed acts as a scenographic and performative center point, a turning stage where six cabaret performers move between acts of singing, dancing, storytelling and acting. The performance explores themes of intimacy, love, desire and identity through a non-linear structure that involves and engages the audience. Spectators are invited to move between being voyeurs and participants in a performance that bends genre expectations and explores the intersection of private and public.

Pretty Poison Cabaret is a queer, feminist, and migrant performance project based in Amsterdam. Led by artists Peter Scherrebeck and Karina Villafan, the project explores cabaret as a powerful artistic language and space for interdisciplinary knowledge, critical thinking, and community-building. The project aims to bridge nightlife with art institutions, galleries, and theatre spaces. Inspired by Latin American and French cabaret traditions, Pretty Poison Cabaret challenges conventional norms and affirms cabaret as a political, sensitive, and collective space.