{"id":58279,"date":"2024-10-23T13:59:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=58279"},"modified":"2024-10-23T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:59:27","slug":"the-ice-hole-a-cardboard-comedy-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-ice-hole-a-cardboard-comedy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ice Hole &ndash; A Cardboard Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This production debuted for four performances in May and two in July; all sold out (deservedly). It&#8217;s now back for a run at Theatre by QE2, and it&#8217;s highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an English version of an award-winning French comedy from 2021, <em>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 <em>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<p>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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This production debuted for four performances in May and two in July; all sold out (deservedly). It&#8217;s now back for a run at Theatre by QE2, and it&#8217;s highly recommended. It&#8217;s an English version of an award-winning French comedy from <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-ice-hole-a-cardboard-comedy-2\/\" title=\"The Ice Hole &ndash; A Cardboard Comedy\"> [&#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-58279","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\/58279","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\/58279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58279"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=58279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}