The New Statesman - Alan B'Stard's Extremely Secret Weapon
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15 December 2006
NOTE: The following review dates from June 2006 and an earlier tour of this production.
They call it “politics”, though after recent headlines revealing a daily diet of incompetence Whitehall farce is probably a more appropriate way of describing the mad-cap merry-go-round that Tony Blair’s New Labour project seems to have spun for itself. John Prescott’s mistress might have found sex during office hours easy to swallow, but the ridiculous reality of a minister caught with his trousers down is surely so farcical that any attempt to satirise it is bound have about as much comic bite as a genteel game of croquet at Dorneywood.
Step forward scruple-free Alan B’Stard MP – the one-man weapon of mass derision. The suave but infamously corrupt political big-hitter from Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s outrageous 1980s television series The New Statesman is back in an equally outrageous stage version.
He’s still the devil in a pinstripe suit, except t...
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88.107.210.45) - 9 January 2007:
A rib tickling evening from Rik Mayall and the gang. Alan is still as big a B'stard as ever in the brave New Labour world he lays claim to having cloned from the left over genes of Mrs T's Tories. TB could do worse than making the short journey up Whitehall to begin - and hopefully end - his farewell tour with this brilliant night out at the Trafalgar Studios. ...
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