Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonA missed opportunity to satirise modern politics, this show resorts to panto for its obvious parodies and easy laughs We get it: dictators are bad. Roughly assimilating Alfred Jarry's 1896 uproarious Ubu Roi with modern politics, Kneehigh's Ubu! should feel prescient, but this thrown-together singalong, surface-level satire chews on the current political situation with a lazy jaw. Co-direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM on December 13, 2019