The play's title operates as a useful sorting device, sifting for audiences who are familiar with the way that the slur has been reclaimed or who are happy to bask in full-frontal sexual tableaux.
Showgirls review Paul Verhoeven's kitsch-classic softcore erotic drama is pure bizarreness
"Showgirls has made a slow ascent from critical flop to kitsch cult favourite and now to a supposed tongue-out-of-cheek classic melodrama, showcasing its crassness."