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Pandemonium at Soho Theatre review: does this weak show prove that Johnson, Sunak and co have killed satire?

Source: Marc Brenner

If this lame comedy about the government’s mishandling of the pandemic is anything to go by, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak might actually have killed off satire.

It’s designed as an antic romp in mock-Shakespearean style, performed around a small platform with modern props augmenting Elizabethan

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