I managed to get a £25 Rush Ticket from TodayTix for this political satire.
There were some quite up to date topical references involving the current statuses of Rolf Harris and Philip Schofield, but the voice-over impressions appeared to be prerecorded for an evening performance as there were a number if references during the afternoon matinee to it being evening.
The theatre also wasn’t very full, with the upper circle closed and people at the back of the stalls being moved further forward. This meant at a point when they asked the different levels to hear, there was silence from the upper circle which wasn’t referenced.
Apart from that it was very funny.
There was a show stop about 15 minutes in which lasted 15-20 mins. It was unclear what caused it, but at some points it looked like there was a possible problem with spotlighting.
It focuses on King Charles cotonation and how to thwart a plot to stop it. There are lot of puppets that appear but some don’t have very much to do and seemed to just appear to show they made their puppets.
Overall or was an entertaining couple of hours.
8/10
