Yes, Prime Minister
From: Friday, 17th September 2010
To: Saturday, 15 January 2011
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Synopsis
Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and his Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley face a country in financial meltdown, with the only prospect of salvation coming from morally dubious allies - leading to deliciously comic consequences.
Our Review:
28 September 2010
'House Full' notices outside the Gielgud, following a record-breaking sell-out season at Chichester earlier this year, testify to the pulling power in the title of Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s political farce, which re-unites the hapless puppet Prime Minister, Jim Hacker, with his string-pulling Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby.
David Haig, apoplectic and down-at-heel as the PM, and Henry Goodman, pop-eyed and oily as Sir Humphrey, do an excellent job in bearing no resemblance at all to their much loved, much subtler predecessors in the television series, Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne.
But Lynn’s broad production has coarsened still further since Chichester; the playing has acquired a desperation that stifles laughter. And there still remains the unpleasant, unfunny business of paedophilia in the terms of political agreement; before he signs the deal on the oil pipe-line, the unseen Kumranistan foreign secretary demands an under-age prosti...
Latest User Review
John - 22 November 2011:
Excellent, loved the show and thought this was every bit as good....
Cast
Henrey Goodman (Sir Humphrey Appleby)
David Haig (Jim Hacker)
Jonathan Slinger
Emily Joyce
William Chubb
Sam Dastor
Tim Wallers
Creative
Antony Jay (Author)
Jonathan Lynn (Author)
Mark Goucher (Producer)
Wimpole Theatre (Producer)
Matthew Byam (for Playful Productions) (Producer)
Jonathan Lynn (Director)
Simon Higlett (Design)
Tim Mitchell (Lighting)
John Leonard (Sound)
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