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 garb and sweary abuse juxtaposed with highfalutin imagery. But very few blows land and the elegantly profane language can’t disguise undergraduate-level humour and an incoherent mess of a script.
