Stiffed!
From: Wednesday, 14th April 2010
To: Sunday, 9 May 2010
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Synopsis
The tale follows progressive Quentin Dellaware who has just picked up a Tory seat in a landslide by-election. Keen to make a difference, he is swiftly shown the status quo by his old school chum George Moore-Lys. Meanwhile, Labour front-bencher Paula Stiff is pressing for a fairer Britain with the help of her husband-cum-aide Marty whose real passion is toy trains. Which would all be politics as usual except that young Sally Pauper, an aspiring journalist, aims to make her mark by uncovering the biggest parliamentary story since the gunpowder plot.
Our Review:
19 April 2010
Almost a year after the expenses scandal first broke, public ire still seems fresh – witness the take-off of Nick Clegg’s election aspirations as soon as the subject was raised in Thursday night’s debate.
A subject ripe for satire then, thought political editor of Metro, John Higginson, and Clodagh Hartley, The Sun’s Whitehall editor, whose play on the topic, Stiffed!, has just opened at Turnham Green’s Tabard Theatre. They weren’t necessarily wrong – a good play about the scandal might emerge one day, though it’s difficult to envisage what new takes there can be on the much-documented saga – but sadly, the pair fail to pull it off.
Stiffed!’s plot kicks off with a landslide by-election victory for progressive young Tory, Quentin Dellaware (Brendan Murphy). He arrives, idealistic, in Westminster, only to be shown the ropes by his old school-friend, George Moor...
Creative
John Higginson (Author)
Coldagh Hartley (Author)
Cerberus Productions Ltd (Producer)
Pulling Focus Ltd (for the Tabard Theatre) (Producer)
Chris Hone (Design)
Natalie Walker (Lighting)
Natalie Walker (Sound)
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