Aletia Upstairs, cabaretist extraordinaire delivers an exploration of Weill, Brecht, and Weimar cabaret songs like Alabama Song, Falling in Love Again, Pirate Jenny, Barbara Song, and I Am a Vamp. Set in the world of expressionist painter Otto Dix, as Julia Berber – Anita Berber’s fictional sister, Aletia Upstairs relates the Weimar period to contemporary events with comedy and audience sing-alongs.

“Aletia gave a great performance full of passion and humour. The audience loved it.”
✭✭✭✭✭ – Patrick Harrington (Counter Culture)

“Challenging and courageous. This lady in red shines like a newborn star.”
   – Kevin Short (International Times)

“A Queer Love Of Dix is a quality piece of theatre and performance art…a well-crafted script and beautifully sung songs…a performance of mastery.”
✭✭✭✭✭ – Mark Calvert (Mumble) 

Aletia Upstairs is a South African born, London based archival performance artist, cabaretist, singer-songwriter and vintage songstress currently completing a PhD in Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University. Her practice is situated in performing archives, autobiographical, postdramatic and participatory-immersive performance.‘A Queer Love of Dix’ received 5-star reviews at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018. She received the Kantor Demarco award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 for 'Emballage'. 

Audience Responses

Very funny, entertaining, beautiful and moving. Great caberetist. The art was striking and evocative.

Wonderful, great performer and so entertaining

Very entertaining!

She made the songs her own . The songs need a kind of a roughness , but they do have beauty in it as well and sometime I found that was lacking at times. Overall a good show!

Very entertaining!

Very entertaining!

A brilliant, one of a kind show that only the amazing Aletia Upstairs could pull off! Comedic, emotional touches and insightful.