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The work is penned by Shane "ShayShay" Konno, founder of Pan-Asian cabaret collective The Bitten Peach.

The Simple Life and Death, a new Paris Hilton parody show, will make its world premiere November 27-December 7 at London's Pleasance Theatre. The work is penned by Shane "ShayShay" Konno, founder of Pan-Asian cabaret collective The Bitten Peach.

The cast will feature Konno as Paris Hilton, Fizz Sinclair as Nicole Richie, and Danielle Adéyínká-Uche as Twinkerbell. 

The Simple Life and Death places a murderous spin on Hilton's reality show The Simple Life—Hilton and Richie are reuniting for the show's 20th anniversary relaunch, but things become not so simple when a body is found. The murder mystery queer cabaret puts Hilton and Richie to the test as they try to catch the killer. 

With a creative team led by a trans woman and a non-binary femme, the production explores 2000s culture through a trans lens, and aims to serve as empowering representation for the trans community. 

"Over the past few years, the U.K. media has seen a huge rise in the number of transphobic headlines," Konno said in a statement. "We have seen a huge rise in anti-trans rhetoric. The U.K. is literally nicknamed TERF island. As trans writers, we wanted to create something fun, outrageous, and seriously silly, with trans people in starring roles!"

"As a trans woman, I often feel drowned by negative statistics, and how scary and serious the world can feel everyday," added Sinclair. "I got tired of fighting trolls on the internet and trying to convince the world that trans women are not the enemy, and instead, decided to just do what I do best... be a bit of a class clown. So, I joined forces with ShayShay and we wanted to combine all the things we love: '00s pop culture, bad jokes, good jokes, cabaret, comedy... and create something that we would love to see, love to be in, and something we thought the stages of 2024 needed: iconic blondes solving a murder."

Click here for tickets. 

 
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