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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants review – wonderfully weird cabaret of the unexpected

Freudian undercurrents … Jemma Kahn in We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants.
Freudian undercurrents … Jemma Kahn in We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian

This peculiar and alluring act begins as burlesque: Jemma Kahn starts on a coy-eyed striptease, first her skirt and then the stockings, but things take an unexpected – comic, odd, compelling – turn.

More strange turns follow, from the seven stories she tells, all revolving around the deadly sins, to her absurdly savage mime involving a Beatles song, a silver hammer and an assortment of fruit.

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