Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap
Made in South Africa
Meet Cape Town’s most charismatic drag queens in this eye-opening reality series. All episodes are now streaming on Showmax.
From The Mommy Club creators POP24, Beaulah: Queens van die Kaap is a new reality TV show about Cape Town’s drag queens, including queen of queens Manila von Teez, Miss Sovereign Western Cape winners Ina Propriette and Maxine Wild, Miss Gay Western Cape and Miss Cape Town Pride Kat Gilardi, multi-award winner Emogan Moore, and rival house mothers BB Vahlour and Madison Scarr.
From Miss Sovereign to Miss Gay Grassy Park, and from Beefcakes to Zer021, Beaulah will take you onto the Cape Town drag scene’s biggest stages.
Told in Gayle with subtitles, it’s an eye-opening and jaw-dropping introduction to a world of extreme transformations, unforgettable fashion, warring houses, opposing queen mothers, wig-gates, and sisterhood.
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