Colors and fun in the theater

Today I was in the theater Freyvangsleikhúsið, photographing a rehearsal for the play "Þorskur á þurru landi / Off the hook" by Allen Lewis Rickman and Karl Tiedemann. My husband is the director and premiere will hopefully be on February 20th, if everything goes as planned :)

"Off the Hook is about a nitwit British ambassador, Evelyn Carstairs, who is faced with solving a dispute between his country and a small Caribbean Scandinavian (namely Iceland) country. He is also trying to avoid a gangster, Phillie the Exterminator, who thinks the ambassador is having an affair with his girl friend. Since Evelyn drove the girlfriend, Angie, home in the cook's car, the gangster thinks that the cook, Chester, is the one they are after. When they show up at the embassy, Chester assumes Evelyn's identity while Evelyn claims to be a janitor. During the course of the evening, Evelyn changes identities more times than the San Marcos Icelandic delegate, Colonel de Novarro Hans G. Andrésson, gets knocked out. Phil and his sidekick, Frankie, a Sicilian whose only English comes from the movie "Casablanca," mistakes almost everyone for everyone else. People are given sleeping pills in their drinks and bodies are being dragged outdoors only to reappear at the most inopportune time. The Colonel is constantly losing his suit, along with this mind; Angie gets found in seemingly compromising positions - In various states of undress- the gangster has a secret revealed; and everything ends up for the best.

Subtle this play is not. Funny it most certainly IS."