The words that would describe the Pharmacy brand from Australia would be:
Debauchery
Freaks
Weird
Twisted
Daring
In Your Face
Bad Boys
Circus
It wasn't that we only targetted the production at males. We were supposed to have a firedancer but due to safety reasons, that was called off last minute.
The crew then made a last minute attempt to get UV lights set up and co-ordinate with the firedancer his routines without fire, substituted by UV lighting (you could have noticed a white shirted guy on the stage). This didn't work for 2 reasons:
There wasn't enough space on stage to allow him to swing his UV coated fire stick around
Difficult to co-ordinate lighting routines on the last minute
There was a lot more ideas going into the 'circus' for the night, but for reasons such as the decline of street closure and minimal response (in terms of tickets to the event), these constricted our ability to account for other production items.
While i take your point on the strippers, understand that we made no excuses and asked that all came with an open mind. If you look at the flyers and the way promotions were done for this event, the write ups and editorials were anything but conventional.
Some may think that strippers are cheap and dirty...but Pharmacy is a playhouse of everything dirty, everything weird, and everything daring. It is meant to provoke, not conform. And the fact that some of you are upset shows that we did what we set out to do.
Trust me when I say that it is a fine line for us when we try to think of what is actually "going to far". And we also account for the fact that not everyone's tastes are the same. The dancer's routine was actually toned down (their full routine included full strips and a strap on show), but we thought that was going too far.
But don't worry, the production concept and philosophy for Pharmacy isn't intended to provoke only female audiences...it is intended to provoke all
Now that the brand has got a foothold in NZ's market, only better can come in terms of more well rounded production.
On an ending note, GK's strippers were indeed classy...but then again we aren't setting out to be GK. We're setting out to be something else.
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