At this play about Dominic Cummings, the notoriously shortsighted north-east explorer, the audience played a Westminster equivalent of Where’s Wally? as a rumour circulated that the subject’s vision had sufficed for him to reach the venue.
From my sweeps, the dedicated EU outer was not, as theatre people say, “in” for Dom – The Play. But the chief of the Vote Leave campaign and Boris Johnson’s senior Downing Street adviser from 2019-20 commands the stage as played by Chris Porter, who delivers, in soft County Durham tones, a monologue apologia. It is punctuated by dialogues with Tim Hudson’s puce, buffoonish prime minister and lightning impressions of bit players from Rebecca Todd (Nicola Sturgeon, Elizabeth II) and David Mildon (Farage, Cameron, Obama etc).
