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The Review - THEATRE by SONIA ZHURALOYVA
Published: 9 August 2007

Richard Moore as Eddie Fredericks Picture: Geraint Lewis

Laughter and current affairs

IN THE CLUB
Hampstead Theatre

RICHARD Bean’s new play is ‘a political sex farce’. He knows politics or more likely he knows that sex and politics can be mined for endless amounts of cringing scenarios and laugh-out-loud buffoonery.
The play comes replete with an oaf of a politician, an illegal Russian PA and a spy in the cupboard. Oh and Bean has also thrown in a pig-farming Yorkshireman and some sex toys. What more could you ask for? A bishop with a false leg? Coming right up!
James Fleet hams it up to the max as Phillip Wardrobe, the dodgy MEP with his sights on the EU Parliamentary presidency and Sian Brook is excellent as the PA with all the bright ideas.
The comedy gets laughs, but manages to press political buttons too. Selfish politicians, Turkey’s human rights record and the EU all get a thrashing. However, the time taken to set the scene and explain the division between the Christian Democrats and European Democrats over Turkey in the European Parliament dampens the mood a little. The characters are spot on though, especially the UKIP Yorkshireman who likes to blame everything on the ‘gypos’.
Until August 25
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