Interview with burlesque entertainer Ursula Martinez

25th January 2010

 

INTERVIEW: URSULA MARTINEZ

Ahead of a new show at the Barbican Centre, My Stories Your Emails, Ursula Martinez, best-known now for her involvement in cabaret sensation La Clique, talks to Carole Woddis about her work and why she was dismayed to find her subversive strip-tease act laid bare on the web.

I started receiving emails from fans from all over the world, mostly innocuous and charming, some of them not so charming…