Madame Arthur: Paris's oldest gender-twisting cabaret " in pictures
The AFP photographer Joel Saget went on stage and backstage at the Parisian cross-dressing cabaret Madame Arthur. Open since 1946, Madame Arthur is the oldest transformist cabaret in Paris. Threatened with extinction, it has undergone a renaissance since 2015, attracting younger customers by returning to its fundamentals: baroque and queer performers who play with genres and conventions, and sing French hits live Con…