There is an unwritten rule in showbusiness that you should never work with children or animals.

It’s a rule that Albert’s Schloss has pretty much followed since opening in Manchester - having seen pretty much every other type of performer grace its stage.

“There was one performer a few years ago where we had to have a conversation and be like ‘are we crossing the line here?’,” recalls James Plant, the venue’s Head of Innovation, speaking to the Manchester Evening News.

“It was burlesque performer John Celestus, who was stripped down to a thong, bent over on stage and shaving his upper thighs on stage so I could staple a player card to it. There was a lot of shaving foam and a very small thong involved.

“But then we got a review from someone about that night and we realised that, act

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