The Stage

Chit chat: Getting hot under the collar about ice show

Published Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 12:45 by Tabard

Tabard was delighted to see that Blackpool long-runner Hot Ice will be returning to the Pleasure Beach this year. However, we were a little confused by director Amanda Thompson’s description of the revamped show.

“The power of the spotlight picks out a blade, spiralling and shimmering across the ice,” she starts, in a distinctly florid fashion. “The arena is filled with echoes of ice crackling. The flashes of steel across the ice are poetic in their movement, much like magpies picking up glistening trinkets to unlock the heart, where passion for performance runs deep and pumps through our veins. A fashion fantasy of light, sound, glamour and talent.

“The ice provides a pure canvas of innocence, and this is the key to the freedom of creativity. Fairy dust and imagination are blended to give a show that is divinely spectacular.”

Mmm. Okay. Pseuds Corner, anyone? Or maybe just a lie down in a darkened room.