Laugh Out Loud Shaw "Perhaps we only have our heroic ideas because we are so fond of reading Byron and Pushkin."Raina Alex Waldmann as Bluntschli and Rebecca Collingwood as Raina…
Labour Party politics have always been by turns ferocious and genuinely fraternal, bitter and yet sentimental. They have their little rituals, and they have their own little hypocrisies. Anyone who has ever contemplated pushing their best friend under a bus in order to get his or her job will be familiar with the fine-sounding euphemisms that are used to disguise ruthless ambition.If you want to understand what it’s like inside the belly of the beast, I strongly recommend a trip to the White Bear in Kennington this week to see Triggered.
The play opens with Hugh (Gary Heron) phoning a friend, well a colleague or a rival critic, with some jubilant news as to his selection for a safe Tory seat, but first he has to clear the skeletons out of his closet. He phones Monique his girlfriend and masseuse to arrange a celebration breaking into rather poor French. We are in Hugh’s luxury flat, the walls dripping with expensive and original art and we have just met this self centred, self absorbed divorcé. On the table are copies of his latest book, Alternative Therapy drawing attention to his appearances on BBC’s Question Time.