Russian
Collusion, Nuclear Negotiation, and Farage’s plan to sell Scotland to Trump in
geopolitical satire, Trump the Musical
Trump the Musical
Newcastle Alphabetti Theatre
26th February - 1st March
2019
Following sold out runs in London, Birmingham and Sheffield last
year, Blowfish Theatre is delighted to bring the “outrageously good” (★★★★ What’s On Live), “sharply
written and thoroughly unapologetic” (★★★★ Exposed) Trump the
Musical to Alphabetti Theatre, 26th
February - 1st March.
With
foot-tapping original music, a character list of geopolitical proportions, and
one truly awful wig, audiences can expect satirical farce on a global scale.
Set in
2020, the show features a Presidential state visit to England, King Nigel
Farage’s plan to sell the newly independent Scotland to Trump as a golf course,
and Kim Jong Un’s unusual nuclear negotiating tactics. But the big question,
why has Vladimir Putin gone suspiciously quiet?
Trump the
Musical is the second show from Sheffield based satirical outfit
Blowfish Theatre, and is coming to Newcastle as part of a UK tour ahead of the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Formed in
2016 to make Boris the
Musical, the company never expected to make a second show. “We
really didn’t think Boris would
last six months,” said Co-Artistic Director Kyle Williams. “That was our first
mistake. Our second was to form a satirical theatre company three months before
the election of the 45th President of the United States, one Donald John
Trump."
But,
admitted writer Laurence Peacock, making satire to match Donald Trump was a new
challenge: “We definitely had to raise our game. Just keeping up with all
Korean nuclear ‘will they, won’t they?’ has been interesting. Not to mention
the Mueller investigation. And when you’re writing satire about the world
leaders of 2019, you can go to some seriously strange places. If the show is
silly, it’s because the politics behind it is getting absurd!”
But do
theatre goers want to spend an evening with The Donald? “Haha. They really do,”
says actor Polly Bycroft-Brown, who plays the President. “They love getting up
close and personal with the President. There’s something cathartic about
laughing at something so monstrous. And of course, without spoiling the ending,
I can say that it doesn’t go very well for The Donald.”
On The Web:
@blowfishtheatre (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
Photos: Heather Isobel
Tickets:
Trump the
Musical at Alphabetti Theatre, St James Boulevard, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4HP
26th
February - 1st March 7.30pm, £9/£7
Age
recommendation: 14+
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