{"id":55472,"date":"2024-04-26T17:56:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=55472"},"modified":"2024-04-26T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:56:46","slug":"the-ice-hole","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-ice-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ice Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an English version of an award-winning French comedy from 2021, <em>Les Gros Patinent Bien<\/em>, by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan. That was a story which began with boxes: in the corner of a rehearsal room, deprived of stage and audience by the pandemic, Guillois and Martin-Salvan \u2013 long-term friends who work as a double act \u2013 came across some cardboard and began to improvise situations using the apparently thankless material.<\/p>\n<p>They reworked the original for an Anglophone audience at last year\u2019s Edinburgh Festival as <em>The Ice Hole.<\/em> There were rave reviews for a show that has an imposing Shakespearian actor telling incredible stories of a man journeying through Europe under the curse of a mermaid he\u2019d absent-mindedly caught in a fjord. The actor is accompanied by a put-upon flunky (maybe a stage manager?) who strives with the help of hastily-scribbled cardboard signs and boxes to help us understand the meaning of this journey \u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fun, mad as trumpets, with echoes of Monty Python, Laurel and Hardy, and the Mighty Boosh; and it\u2019s well worth an evening of your time.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew T Corbett directs Sadiq Saboowala and Patrick Albrecht for Complices Th\u00e9\u00e2tre. There are further shows on 4 and 5 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This is an English version of an award-winning French comedy from 2021, Les Gros Patinent Bien, by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan. That was a story which began with boxes: in the corner of a rehearsal room, deprived of stage <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-ice-hole\/\" title=\"The Ice Hole\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[55],"class_list":["post-55472","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-theatre","cat_theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55472"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=55472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}