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Ursula Martinez is a British theatre maker, performer and director. She was born 1966 in South London, the daughter of an English father and Spanish mother, both teachers. After graduating in French and Theatre at Lancaster University, she began performing cabaret turns on London's club circuit, in particular the iconic queer performance club, Duckie. After much success as a cabaret performer Martinez went on to create theatre shows, both solo and collaborative.
Three shows in which she starred, C'Est Duckie, La Clique and La Soirée, have won Olivier awards. Her acts are often sexy and funny and she is not afraid to use her nude body as commedic relief in those acts. In her most famous act, Hanky Panky is combining magic with striptease, Martinez repeatedly makes a red handkerchief vanish and re-appear from an item of clothing, which is then removed until she is naked. Hanky Panky was described in the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most inventive striptease routines ever devised'. The act brought Martinez international notoriety after she performed it in La Clique in the Famous Spiegeltent during Edinburgh Fringe in 2004. After attending a performance, Maureen Lipman wrote in the Guardian: 'I couldn't imagine that removing a jacket, skirt and underwear with a bolshie attitude could be that empowering. She...finished by removing it from a place that brought howls of appreciation from every corner of the roundest of venues. Like Gypsy Rose before her, Ms Martinez had the last laugh on generations of the exploitations of her sex.' Enjoy and comment please if you like it!
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