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The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson review " satire fails to skewer by Michael Billington

Park theatre, LondonChurchill, Blair and Thatcher drop in on Jonathan Maitland's vacillating hero, but the jokes fall flat in this topical comedy The problem with creating a play about Boris Johnson is that it reinforces his inflated sense of his own importance. Jonathan Maitland's topical satire has a few good gags and sharply improves in its futuristic second half but, while suggesting that Johnson is a vacillating…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM on May 14, 2019

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