Charles Busch’s 1980s queer cult classic from Off-Broadway has hit the PIP Theatre in Milton with a bloody splash. Co-presented by Midnight Social and CFX Productions, 'Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom' is packing the tiny PIP Theatre, celebrating the sexiness of the queer undead as part of the Melt Festival.

The famously fabulous tale follows the immortal lifestyle of two fatally seductive lesbian vampires who suck the life from young virgins over 2,000 years, from the ancient Rome to 1920s Hollywood, ending in Las Vegas, a den of depravity, but thin on the ground for virgins!

Director Wayne McPhee describes how, when designing the production, he knew that “subtlety was never going to be an option!”

The show is packed with feathers, blood-soaked sequins, semi-nudity and sexy burlesque. The ideal night out!

Adding to the exotic exuberance is a great local cast with Sherri Smith (‘Animal Farm’, ‘Romeo And Juliet’) as La Condessa, the matriarchal succubus who enjoys reinventing herself from a Roman God requiring virginal sacrifices to a sexy Hollywood starlet. She has it all in spite of her younger, prettier arch-nemesis Emma Pruss (‘Good Women’, ‘Twisted Tales’) as Madeleine Astarte, whom she mistakenly immortalises in a fit of passion.

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Both women exude a sexy, dangerous allure, mesmerising many women played by theatre student at Griffith University, Rose Traynor-Boyland and actor, director, Megan Hind (‘Emerald City’, ‘Steady Rain’) within their clutches for a salacious suck.

Men are also trapped within their magnetic powers to be ridiculed and down-trodden, played comically by Hayden Parsons (‘Bring A Very Big Net’, ‘The Great Gatsby’) and Connor Scoble (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘Rozencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead’). Both share their well-toned bodies in seductive stripteases to iconic music through the ages as servants of the daughters of Satan. Scoble is particularly good with his accents, boasting a mean Yankee ‘Noo Yawker’ twang as he unsuccessfully drags his girlfriend from the fiend's clutches.

The hour-long spectacle effervesces with energy through dance, cabaret, burlesque and blood with plenty of whoops and encouragement from the audience. Nothing and no virgin is spared, with every actor hamming and glamming it up with a sparkle and a cheeky wink.

In the words of Director McPhee, “If you're going to be immortal, you might as well be fabulous!”