Backwoods Burlesque: Off-the-Grid Tsk Tsk

The Tsk Tsk Revue has become an annual one-night event—perhaps now more accurately described as a phenomenon— in the 350-peopled, entirely off-the-grid island of Lasqueti, BC, developing into a Gulf islands’ touring show. Teeming with brazen backwoods humour and localized, alternatively-powered erotics, the Tsk Tsk Revue has rightfully earned a unique place on the national burlesque scene. The show spins both the term sexy and the status quo on their heads, highlighting the often-absurd moments of choosing to live off-the-grid and translating the many challenges that face the islanders into comedic fodder. Staging innovative low-tech stage tropes, costumes, and black light burlesque through a series of vignettes strung together by the colourful commentary of the show’s creator and hostess, Jenny Vester, the Tsk Tsk Revue continually pushes the limits and tests one remote little island’s limits.