This musical satire about “foreigners” could not have a more timely opening week, commencing its critique just as Suella Braverman uses a nature metaphor – there is not quite a river but a hurricane apparently on its way – to whip up anti-immigrant anxiety.
Here, though, we are in “Britaim”, a fictional nation run by the tyrannical mayor of “Londom”, Lord Villain (Vikash Bhai), who wants to deport Dame Foreign (Fabrizio Matteini). The latter is juggling zero-hours jobs (“I’m so tired I barely have the time to steal your benefits”) and fighting to keep her daughter, Zara (Aliya Roberts), and their cow, Visa (Amanda Vilanova), in the country.
