Cabaret

Who Dixie’s Tupperware Party

What Alabama trailer park leavin’, Tupperware sellin’, Edinburgh-ownin’ drag queen.

Why Dixie Longate has landed in Edinburgh with a suitcase full of garishly coloured plastic, legs up to there and a personality as big as her hair. We’re in a small, hot theatre and, befitting a Tupperware party, the lights stay up and daylight-bright. Catalogues in hand, name-stickers on chests, a table full of plastic kitchenware… and then enter booze-drinking Dixie Longate. She’s fast, she’s fierce, she works the room like a deranged trailer-park poodle on speed and she has highly inventive uses for Tupperware. Longate is every bit as acid-tongued and quick as she should be – this is a comedy drag show, after all – and the audience interaction stays true to theme: girls get called lesbians, men get sat on and there’s gentle mocking of a truly unfortunate looking married couple . There’s more to this show than mere tongue-lashings and heavy make-up, though. There’s a real sense of celebration about the empowerment gained through self-employment and standing up after being – literally – beaten down. And when Longate laughs about selling Tupperware for real? It’s not a joke. Those catalogues are, it turns out, genuine. Dixie Longate really is north America’s number one seller. Simone Baird

At Assembly until Aug 31, 7.35pm