Alistair Aitcheson / Mademoiselle Cafetière
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Alistair Aitcheson / Mademoiselle Cafetière
@agaitcheson.bsky.social
🎭 Join my shows to dream, laugh, cause chaos and get creative!
✨ Drag clown and award-winning videogame programmer
🎈 Interactive + playful theatre
http://alistair.games
http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
Bristol! Come to the Loco Klub on Monday for a night of awesome comedy and punk poetry!

With comedy legends Dom Joly and Ian Stone 🤩

Plus me Pierce Brosnan fall in love live on stage, and you the audience control his every word 🧡

Over the moon to be on a bill like this 😀✨
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
What perfect album came out when you were 16?

For me it's an easy answer. I got this when it came out, when I was 16. It's still one of my two favourite albums of all time
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
If you're in or near Nottingham I can highly recommend going to see the Kate MccGwire exhibition at Lakeside Arts Centre

Went this weekend and it was outstanding. Sculptures and paintings made entirely out of reclaimed feathers.
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I call this spot Goat Rock because it's the best spot to sit and watch the goats.

Today Goat Rock had goats on it 😀
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ooh didn't spot these! There were photos from the curtain call too 😀✨
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
More mermaidings 😊
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Got the photos from Scritch Cabaret of my adventures as Ariel the Little Mermaid!

The photographer really managed to capture my vibe in this one - I love it 😄

Photos by www.instagram.com/dlqisy?igsh=...

Next Script Cabaret is tomorrow! hdfst.uk/e140635
November 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Went to see Helios, the big sun, in Bristol Cathedral today.

What was interesting about it was that I was expecting it to make me feel small, but in reality it made me feel big.

Here's this thing that's meant to be impossibly far away, impossibly big, impossibly hot, that you can't even look at...
October 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Who wants to play spot the clown? 😁
October 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The Incredible Playable Show is 9 years old today! 🥳

I am also 9+ years old today

I remember before my first show I said "if it goes badly I'll just tell them it's my birthday"

I told them it was my birthday 😂

Off to EGX/MCM now to do the 9-years-matured version 😁✨
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Someone on Instagram asked what all the kit looked like packed up, so here it is!

The whole thing weighs 20kg - luckily the suitcase has wheels 😄
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A little guided tour of all the custom props and controllers I'll be using in The Incredible Playable Show this weekend :)
October 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I love this wide-angle shot from my cabaret gig in Wales last weekend 😊

I got the audience to draw the great works of art on A3 boards during the interval, and then interpreted each of them as a dance during the act 😁
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Believing the UK to be no better I Googled for examples of the same phenomenon here. Thankfully AI stepped in with some helpful answers.
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This Sunday I'm performing at MCM Comic Con at the ExCel in London! EGX visitors can also come and play!

Schedule: www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/en-us...

If you want to see how the games medium can be absolutely transformed by bringing it onto the stage, this is the show for you!
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Last night I was at a cabaret in Wales.

I got the audience to recreate the great works of art and I, as Prima Ballerina of the Royal Ballet, brought them to life through interpretive dance.
October 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Clip from my Little Mermaid act on Sunday

Huge love to whoever typed "flirt with the Fridge" 😄💕
October 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We did our debut sea shanties gig as MERMAID ON THE DANCE FLOOR ✨🎶

I was the mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Then I jumped in and swam 3 lengths

They gave me a certificate 😂
October 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This Saturday my band has its debut performance at Jubilee Pool in Knowle, Bristol!

We're called MERMAID ON THE DANCE FLOOR and I'm the mermaid ✨🧜‍♀️✨

Come along to enjoy some clown-infused sea shanties, support a great local initiative and cheer on the swimmers!

We take the stage 1pm SATURDAY
October 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
1 week until Pierce Brosnan and I find love in Weston-super-Mare! ✨

Come see the love affair that audiences have called "the most unhinged thing I have ever seen" 💕

Type into your phones to decide what Pierce Brosnan says during our date! Will he win my heart? 💖

BOOK NOW alistair.games/tickets
October 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Thank you so much for having me @qgcon.bsky.social! Everyone was so up for joining in and I even got a standing ovation ✨😭✨

This weekend has been magical. A ray of hope, solidarity, courage and queer resistance at a time when it's sorely needed. Amazing and heartwarming work by everyone involved 🧡
September 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I loved the cardboard moustache but it barely lasted 10 seconds on-stage 😄

I kept developing and improving the show after PLAY18 but I never figured out how to build a moustache that wouldn't get demolished by my wild gesticulations 😂
September 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Some photos from this week 7 years ago when I was developing the Scrambled Eggman Show for @play-festival.bsky.social

I repurposed the Codex Bash buttons to use in one of the challenges. Also built a second Shredward, who was in the exhibition that year. Treasured memories 😊
September 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It would take too long to explain what was going on in this photo 😂

Photo from Side/Step Festival by www.instagram.com/jkolikis
September 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Uh-oh, this doesn't bode well for me...
September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM