'Playing fast and loose with the facts'

Harry Hill has  written a comedy rock opera  about Tony Blair.

The comic has teamed up with his long-time musical collaborator Steve Brown on the show, due to premiere in the theatre at London’s Battersea Power Station in February.

Tony! (a Tony Blair Rock Opera) draws on the former Prime Minister’s youthful rock star-ambitions as the lead singer of a band called   Bad Rumours.

Cherie Blair, Princess Diana, John Prescott, Peter Mandelson, Alistair Campbell, Osama Bin Laden, George W Bush, Saddam Hussein, Gordon Brown, ‘and of course that dodgy dossier’ are all due to feature.

The Turbine Theatre calls the show – which currently runs to 45 minutes – ‘an hilarious tragedy of political intrigue, religion, power and romance that plays fast and loose with the facts, owing as much to Citizen Kane as it does to The Marx Brothers - Karl and Groucho’.

Brown - the father of stand-up comic Alfie Brown – and Hill previously collaborated on  I Can't Sing!, the short-lived West End X Factor spoof. He was also the fictional bandleader Glen Ponder in Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge,

Tony! (a Tony Blair Rock Opera) will be performed from  February 4 to 6.  

The venue's artistic director Paul Taylor-Mills said he was proud to be announcing the show as part of a season of new work, adding: 'It's impossible to ignore the challenges and sheer nerve required to make any kind of announcement during these times.

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Published: 15 Dec 2020