Melbourne, September 23 (ANI): Queensland's Jewish community has slammed a Nazi-themed striptease being performed in Brisbane clubs as "repulsive", amid warnings that it's becoming part of a trend towards shows glorifying the Third Reich, it has been revealed.
The controversial burlesque show features a syringe-wielding, scantily-clad Nazi doctor with a swastika armband conducting scientific experiments on a pair of hooded girls.
The show, which was performed to a crowd of hundreds at the recent Dead of Winter festival at Brisbane's Jubilee Hotel, is the brainchild of burlesque artist and model Ali Darling, who adapted it from a Rob Zombie short film.
Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies president Jason Steinberg said featuring swastikas and other Nazi iconography in a burlesque performance was disrespectful and repulsive.
"It is offensive to the Jewish community - also it would be offensive to the majority of Queenslanders," News.com.au quoted him as saying.
"It shouldn't be acceptable in this day and age for someone to use Nazi symbols in a way that glorifies that era" he said.
According to him, there were still Holocaust survivors living in Queensland, and it was inappropriate for images from that era to be used in a burlesque show.
However, Darling said she had been performing the show, entitled Werewolf Women of the SS, for about six months, and it had become one of her "signature acts".
She said the show was satirical and highly stylised, and although she had "absolutely" had negative feedback about it, she'd had an equal number of people praising the performance.
The 24-year-old also has an act featuring a real pig's eye and another where she tears pages out of a Bible with her teeth and spits them at her audience. (ANI)
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