November 13th is Dick Day
Remember the date. Blog it. Post it. Tweet it. Put it on your calendar. Have it tattooed on a private and rarely seen organ. Tie a bit of string round the dog’s bollocks to remind you. Leave small notes about the house saying “Today is Dick Day.” Call up your friends. Tell people at work. Email it to people you hardly know. Stop wedding guests in the street and tell them in verse. But do remember the date:
November 13th is Dick Day.
On that day (or almost a day earlier in Australia) you can begin to download Dick exclusively from www.whataboutdick.com
Yes this once in a lunchtime offer to see Dick can be yours for only six bucks. Featuring one of the funniest casts ever assembled: Russell Brand, Billy Connolly, Tim Curry, Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, Jane Leeves, Jim Piddock, Tracey Ullman and Sophie Winkleman, talk about bang for your bucks.
Be the first on your block to download it. Plan a Dick party. Come in your pajamas. Or come in her pajamas. Either way don’t miss this shameless display of public weirdness.
ERIC IDLE’S HILIARIOUS COMEDY EVENT
“WHAT ABOUT DICK?” WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Featuring an All-Star Cast of:
Russell Brand, Billy Connolly, Tim Curry, Eric Idle,
Eddie Izzard, Jane Leeves, Jim Piddock, Tracey Ullman and Sophie Winkleman
“Utter madness, brilliant innovation, weirdly wonderful… and deeply moving.”
– Huffington Post, Jay Weston
What is What About Dick? A bird? A plane? A superglue? A film for radio? A play? A farce? An improv? An albatross? This weird hybrid, somewhere between Greek Tragedy and Professional Wrestling, is a comedy for comedians. It has been variously described as “Oscar Wilde on acid,” “like Downton Abbey and almost as funny,” “like E.M Forster on steroids” and “a cross between a budgerigar and an accountant.”
What About Dick? begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley (Eddie Izzard), and tells the story of the subsequent decline of the British Empire as seen through the eyes of a Piano. The Piano (Eric Idle) narrates the tale of Dick (Russell Brand); his two cousins: Emma, (Jane Leeves) an emotionally retarded English girl; her kleptomaniac sister Helena (Sophie Winkleman) and their dipsomaniac Aunt Maggie (Tracey Ullman) who all live together in a large, rambling, Edwardian novel. When the Reverend Whoopsie (Tim Curry) discovers a piano on a beach, a plot is set afoot that can be solved only by a private Dick, the incomprehensible Scottish sleuth Inspector McGuffin (Billy Connolly) who with the aid of Sergeant Ken Russell (Jim Piddock) finally reveals the identity of the Houndsditch Mutilator.
The show features eight new songs from Eric Idle and John Du Prez, the Grammy-award winning duo who brought you Spamalot and the comic Oratorio, Not The Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy) including Arsetrology, Blow Me (a Kiss in the Moonlight) He’s Different (not Gay) and The Lament of the Lonely Trout.
“A comic free-for-all.” Tim Curry
“It’s a huge laugh. It could rip your lungs out. People could watch this and laugh too much and die, so that’s, that’s the danger. It’s actually dangerous to watch this…” Eddie Izzard
“These people are people that live for laughter! They’re dangerous people to be around. They’ll do anything!” Russell Brand
“Most of the audiences have no idea what it is… They know there’s a vaguely suggestive title and they know the list of names and that’s why they’re in here!” Billy Connolly
“The audience loves hearing those Python rhythms and that Python language… but we’re adding ourselves to it too and going off in riffs of madness…” Tracey Ullman
“Genuinely a spirit of anarchy.” This cast is unique. You’ll never see this cast together again doing something like this.” Eric Idle
“Everyone who watches it gets free glue for life!” Eddie Izzard
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