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The Autobiography of a Cad review " Ian Hislop and Nick Newman retell a rotter's political progress

by Mark Lawson

Watermill theatre, NewburyThe Private Eye duo adapt AG Macdonell's satire showing how a privileged chancer in English public life gets away with it It's a bad week of theatre for Boris Johnson. He would be unlikely to endorse the warty portrait of his political idol in Howard Brenton's Churchill in Moscow. And now, in The Autobiography of a Cad, an egotistical, Shakespeare-quoting, wildly reproductive Old Etonian and…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:12pm on February 13, 2025