If you’d told 14-year-old me I’d one day watch a jokey Star Wars parody involving lithe dancers stripping off… well, the word “nerdgasm” springs to mind. Today, I could tell my younger self with absolute conviction that a row of fishnetted derrieres isn’t that erotic when the women involved are also wearing Imperial Stormtrooper masks.
This unauthorized (but apparently tolerated) burlesque spoof of George Lucas’s many-tentacled space opera is affectionate and good-humoured. But it’s just not sexy, funny or choreographically sophisticated enough to please anyone outside the hardcore fandom. Though to be fair there’s probably enough of them in London to fill Riverside’s Studio Two for the length of the run.
