Meet Nina, a 24-year-old stripper on the edge; her half-art-half-drug dealing boyfriend, and 18 other eccentrically entertaining characters from the world of surreal, sleazy, velvety strip-clubs and gentrified London dinner parties.
Dry Ice is a début solo show from the award-winning playwright and poet Sabrina Mahfouz. Mahfouz worked in strip-clubs for 5 years. But Dry Ice is not just a strip club exposé – it’s a story of a young girl trying to find her place in the world and so it becomes about reality, illusion, hope, disappointment, sex, power and the voyeur in all of us.
Developed with David Schwimmer, High Tide, Genesis Lab, New Wimbledon Fresh Ideas
David Schwimmer is a co-founder of Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago, which won the Tony Award for Best Regional Theatre in 2011. He has acted in and directed many productions for the company, including Trust, Our Town, West, The Master and Margarita, The Jungle, Eye of the Beholder, The Odyssey, The Idiot, Of One Blood, and his and ensemble member Joy Gregory’s adaptation of Studs Terkel’s book RACE. He starred in the premieres of D Girl and Turnaround in Los Angeles, Glimmer Brothers in Williamstown, Some Girls in London and the revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial on Broadway.
Television and film credits include: Nothing But The Truth, Madagascar I & II, Duane Hopwood, Big Nothing, Band of Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Days Seven Nights, Apt Pupil, The Pallbearer and the hit comedy series Friends, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. His film and television directing includes Since You’ve Been Gone, Run, Fat Boy, Run, the HBO series Little Britain USA, and the upcoming film version of Trust starring Clive Owen, Catherine Keener and Viola Davis. He is on the Board of Directors of the Rape Foundation in Santa Monica, California.
Sabrina Mahfouz was raised in London and Cairo. Her work as a writer includes the plays Chef, With a Little Bit of Luck, Clean, Battleface and the love i feel is red; the poetry collection How You Might Know Me; the literary anthology The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write and the BBC shows Breaking the Code, Railway Nation: A Journey In Verse and We Are Here. She received a Fringe First Award for Chef and won a Sky Arts Academy Poetry Award.
