The New Statesman is viciously politically incorrect, but that is why it is outrageously good.
Alan B’stard is the puppet master who controls Tony Blair the Prime Minister. Based at 9 Downing Street, he runs the country (and the world via Condy). Condoleezza Rice drops in every now and then, discussing how to solve world problems (while B’stard dreams of her fulfilling his sexual fantasies).
No member of the British establishment was saved from being satirised.
Cherie Blair was cruelly portrayed as a dog that tried to copulate with B’stard’s leg. The Queen, John Prescott, Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown, Alistair Campbell, Mandelson…everybody was in it one way or another.
Rik Mayall did a great job. And The New Statesman is perhaps one of the most vicious political satire recently produced.
If you are not one of those people who cringe at political incorrectness, you should go and see this play.
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