Prince Ludwig's Big Diamond, at the Palace. Until December 30.

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Prince Ludwig’s Big Diamond, a very successful entertainment

Prince Ludwig’s Big Diamond is a hilarious show, with a very effective staging. It’s a very successful entertainment.
It’s not very subtle, but the result is there, it’s a big farce, a zany comedy. Molière for Best Comedy 2018.
Eleven supercharged actors, thirty costumes and six impressive sets for a show inspired by the films noirs of the 50s.
British director Gwen Aduh had already received the Molière for Best Comedy in 2016 for The False British (still playing at the Théâtre Saint-Georges).
This time, in Prince Ludwig’s Big Diamond, it’s about a bank robbery carried out by real broken hands in the America of the 50s, with live musicians, clever guards, convicts on the run, a too honest pickpocket…
Everyone gets involved, from the gangsters to the director. Who is going to scam whom?
It’s very smoothly carried out thanks to a staging full of discoveries, twists and turns, doors that slam like in Feydeau’s work, jokes and an anthology scene where the stage goes from a horizontal state to a vertical position…