Birmingham RepThe excellent puppeteers are the stars of this two-hour staging of the popular TV satire where Paddington plays an evil powerbroker but the punchlines are too often predictable The show starts with a mock trigger warning "for humourless pricks … this show identifies as funny". It's a shame then that the satire is its weakest aspect. When Spitting Image returned to TV it proved divisive. The show's in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM on February 17, 2023