Lola & Muffet

Miss Lola needed a new gimmick for her burlesque dance routine. Feathers and fan dances had been done, body paint and pasties were simply too popular. Disconsolate Lola sat at the pavement café bar, sipping prettily on an absinthe shake.

A large spider descended slowly into view, hanging with a trapeze artist’s finesse from a razor wire thread. Lola was transfixed by the precise movement and eerie grace.

Muffet the spider saw a window of opportunity in Lola’s wide eyes. Recently widowed – again – and with seven hundred children to support, Muffet wasted no time in introducing herself and producing a small but elegant business card.

Muffet now works as Lola’s wardrobe mistress and choreographer. The burlesque spider dance fascinates and unnerves audiences in equal measure. Applause and shivers break out when, in the grand finale, Muffet and her children rapidly cocoon Lola from head to toe in a shroud of spun silk, leaving only her ruffled hat on show….