This production debuted for four performances in May and two in July; all sold out (deservedly). It’s now back for a run at Theatre by QE2 on 26 and 27 October, followed by one show on 17 November, and it’s highly recommended.<\/p>\n
It’s an English version of an award-winning French comedy from 2021, Les Gros Patinent Bien<\/em>, by Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan. They reworked the original for an Anglophone audience at the Edinburgh Festival as The Ice Hole<\/em>, and 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 It\u2019s fun, mad as trumpets, with echoes of Monty Python, Laurel and Hardy, and the Mighty Boosh. Matthew T Corbett directs Sadiq Saboowala and Patrick Albrecht, two-time winners of the local Short+Sweet Dubai Theatre Festival, for Complices Th\u00e9\u00e2tre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"