Kitty Neptune laps up the attention in Neon Nightz.
For local sex advice columnist Sasha Van Bon Bon’s autobiographical account of stripping in mid-90s Montreal, Buddies has transformed its mainspace into a skin bar, complete with two towering poles and a pervert’s row.
Van Bon Bon relates funny and philosophical memoirs separated by full-on strip sessions during which Kitty Neptune (and later Van Bon Bon herself) get naked portraying various peelers from the Montreal scene.
In monologues, Van Bon Bon shares first-hand accounts of political shifts in her occupation. She candidly reveals hidden class struggles between opportunistic student strippers (“Simone de Beavers”) and more pragmatic careerists, and catalogues the ill effects of private dancing’s move from the distanced gaze of the table to the vulnerability of the patron’s lap.
These intriguing intellectual strokes are balanced by funnier fare about dealing with prima donna “feature dancers” and awkwardly stripping for her old Grade 8 math teacher.

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Each week, Drama Club looks at Toronto’s theatre scene and tells you which shows are worth checking out. Kitty Neptune is ready to school your ass. Photo by David Hawe. Today’s edition of Drama Club is brought to you by sex and gender politics. A couple of very interesting shows opened in the city last week, both of which approach aspects of sexuality and gender identity from very different perspectives. In the girl corner, we have Sasha Von Bon Bon’s Neon Nightz, a two-woman burlesque(-ish) cabaret about the 90s Montreal strip club scene directed by outgoing Buddies Artistic Director David Oiye. Over at the boy’s club, there’s Darren Anthony’s Secrets of a Black Boy, heavily promoted as the male answer to his sister’s trey’s hugely successful Da Kink in My Hair, which promises to let us all know what it’s really like to be a black man in the city. After the fold, we share our thoughts about these boys, girls, and the secrets they all …

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Tautou seems sweeter and more charming than the woman she plays with such contained intensity, but she, too, exudes confidence and speaks with conviction few would argue with. In fact, so focused was she on our interview that when voices from the hall outside became distracting, she marched over to the hotel room door, pulled it open, and firmly asked the astonished flurry of publicists and media waiting there to please speak more quietly so we could concentrate. “ Merci !”
As the movie tells us, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel grew up in an orphanage with her sister and became a courtesan, aspiring actress and singer – though not exactly a good one. (The nickname Coco came from a song she used to belt out in nightclubs, about a lost dog of the same name.) As she manoeuvres her way into high society, we see her strength, street-smart humour and need for love. We learn of her relationships with two men, Étienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde) and Boy Capel (Alessandro Nivola), both of whom eventually enable her to choose work over marriage. We see her discover her calling, and, after tragedy, devote her life to work.

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But donât expect to read shocking revelations. Pere Jean will stay true to the seal of confession. His goal is to shine a light on a forgotten part of society.
âœItâs amazing to see how deep their thoughts and words can be,â said the priest, who worked for 38 years at Montrealâs Bordeaux â considered the countryâs toughest jail.
The unconventional chaplain said he was destined to spend his life in prison.
âœHadnât I chosen to be a priest, I probably would have become the worldâs greatest gangster. Iâm a passionate person,â he asserted in a book recently published about his life.
Patry recalled being a petty criminal when he was young. He stole regularly, beat up kids in his neighbourhood and wrecked a school. He was saved by his family, his faith and a magazine article on a French priest working with prostitutes in Parisâs red-light district.

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But don’t expect to read shocking revelations. Pere Jean will stay true to the seal of confession. His goal is to shine a light on a forgotten part of society.
“It’s amazing to see how deep their thoughts and words can be,” said the priest, who worked for 38 years at Montreal’s Bordeaux – considered the country’s toughest jail.
The unconventional chaplain said he was destined to spend his life in prison.
“Hadn’t I chosen to be a priest, I probably would have become the world’s greatest gangster. I’m a passionate person,” he asserted in a book recently published about his life.
Patry recalled being a petty criminal when he was young. He stole regularly, beat up kids in his neighbourhood and wrecked a school. He was saved by his family, his faith and a magazine article on a French priest working with prostitutes in Paris’s red-light district.

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But don’t expect to read shocking revelations. Pere Jean will stay true to the seal of confession. His goal is to shine a light on a forgotten part of society.
“It’s amazing to see how deep their thoughts and words can be,” said the priest, who worked for 38 years at Montreal’s Bordeaux – considered the country’s toughest jail.
The unconventional chaplain said he was destined to spend his life in prison.
“Hadn’t I chosen to be a priest, I probably would have become the world’s greatest gangster. I’m a passionate person,” he asserted in a book recently published about his life.
Patry recalled being a petty criminal when he was young. He stole regularly, beat up kids in his neighbourhood and wrecked a school. He was saved by his family, his faith and a magazine article on a French priest working with prostitutes in Paris’s red-light district.

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But donât expect to read shocking revelations. Pere Jean will stay true to the seal of confession. His goal is to shine a light on a forgotten part of society.
âœItâs amazing to see how deep their thoughts and words can be,â said the priest, who worked for 38 years at Montrealâs Bordeaux â considered the countryâs toughest jail.
The unconventional chaplain said he was destined to spend his life in prison.
âœHadnât I chosen to be a priest, I probably would have become the worldâs greatest gangster. Iâm a passionate person,â he asserted in a book recently published about his life.
Patry recalled being a petty criminal when he was young. He stole regularly, beat up kids in his neighbourhood and wrecked a school. He was saved by his family, his faith and a magazine article on a French priest working with prostitutes in Parisâs red-light district.

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But don’t expect to read shocking revelations. Pere Jean will stay true to the seal of confession. His goal is to shine a light on a forgotten part of society.
“It’s amazing to see how deep their thoughts and words can be,” said the priest, who worked for 38 years at Montreal’s Bordeaux – considered the country’s toughest jail.
The unconventional chaplain said he was destined to spend his life in prison.
“Hadn’t I chosen to be a priest, I probably would have become the world’s greatest gangster. I’m a passionate person,” he asserted in a book recently published about his life.
Patry recalled being a petty criminal when he was young. He stole regularly, beat up kids in his neighbourhood and wrecked a school. He was saved by his family, his faith and a magazine article on a French priest working with prostitutes in Paris’s red-light district.

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Description:
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents
The Scandelles in
NEON NIGHTZ
Created and performed by Sasha Van Bon Bon & Kitty Neptune
Live soundtrack performed by Countess Christsmasher
Directed by David Oiye
Set and Lighting Design Andy Moro
Costume Design Marnie Sohn
Stage Manager Laura Baxter
In icy wintry Montreal, where’s a soul to go for comfort, confession and salvation? As The Scandelles’ Sasha Van Bon Bon and Kitty Neptune reveal, the strip clubs of Montreal in the ‘90s were in as high demand as those more sanctified places of refuge. From the iconic feature dancer, to the lap dance confessional, Neon Nightz explores the human side to the world of exotic dancing and uncovers some surprising revelations.
NEON NIGHTZ
Previews Sept 23, Opens Sept 24
Shows Wed – Sat Only, Doors open 8pm, Show 8:30pm

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Mayor Camillien Houde had already announced he would not seek re-election. And Drapeau, then a 38-year-old lawyer, had worked as an investigator on a vice probe headed by Justice François Caron, who chose to unleash his report on the Montreal police force’s tolerance of prostitution and illegal gambling less than two weeks before election day.
Caron fired the police chief, barred the former police chief from holding office for 10 years, fined 18 other active and retired members of the force, and levelled severe criticism at city councillors who were complicit with the police in allowing illegal gambling to take place.Drapeau won in a landslide.A generation earlier, the 1925 report of a commission of inquiry headed by Judge Louis Coderrecreated tumult that overshadowed Mayor Charles Duquette’s victory a year earlier over longtime mayor Médéric Martin. Coderre’s report condemned long-standing collusion among Montreal police, municipal politicians, gambling houses and bordellos across the city.Duquette didn’t run in 1926.Or consider the fate of Hormisdas Laporte, a reformer who was elected mayor of Montreal in …

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