Dicking a Great Big Hole

There is a fine line between comic genius and insanity and Jodie Dick zigzags across it. Her one-woman show entitled Dicking a Great Big Hole is about as unconventional as it sounds and only slightly less pornographic.

Clutching a glass of white wine which she refills several times during the performance, and with an antiquated stage mic—according to her, an elaborate Bluetooth device—strapped to her head, Dick lets the audience in on the comic commandments that have made her career such a "success".

Dick begins by apologising for the state of her performance area which is littered with bedding, underwear and rubbish. Apparently her incompetent stage manager Rosemarie, to whom she talks intermittently during the show via her hands-free device, has been sleeping there. The shambolic surroundings set the tone for the rest of the show, chaotic from start to finish, Dick taking a spontaneous approach involving considerable audience interaction.

A poor unsuspecting man bears the brunt as Dick repeatedly asks, "Who would Paul?". "Who would what?"’ responds Paul. "Who in is this room, would me?" Dick persists. Suffice to say, by the end of the show, Paul gets considerably closer to Dick than his wife would perhaps like.

Dick’s uninhibited unpredictability is what makes her show funny, and despite a slightly anticlimactic ending, her considerable comic ability is evident.