Jón Magnús Arnarsson graduated as an actor/performer from The Commedia School in Copenhagen 2013. After graduating he wrote and performed two monologues at the Act Alone Theatre Festival in Iceland. He is the founder of the Golden Gang Comedy Group which has been organizing and performing sould-out Stand-Ups in English in Gaukurinn, Reykjavík, for the last three years. He is one of the aritstic diriectors of Reykjavík Fringe Festival. Jón Magnús is the Icelandic Champion of Poetry Slam and has been invitied to take part in the European Poetry Slam Competition and the World Championsip of Poetry Slam in Nottingham, England in 2019.

Skin Deep

1F,1M
Translations: English

Black Widow and Iron Man meet on a balcony at a masquerade party and head for a dangerous game; are they friends or fows, are they lovers or adversaries – do they know each other or are they strangers? An actor ́s couple are lost in a play within a play within a play and use brutally clever language to hurt and destroy, seduce and fascinate, love, deceive, hate and tear down. The text is partly rhymed, like a long poem, touching some of the most important issues young people are facing today; the youngsters are torn between contrasting feelings of love, hate, sexual desire, dreams, and the eternal question about what is real and what is unreal. The play premiered at the Reykjavík City Theatre in 2018 and was hailed as “the most original new theatre work in years”.