Yes Prime Minister
Editorial
When: From January 31, 2012
Where: Comedy Theatre
Tickets: Bookings online at Ticketmaster or 136 100
Canberra
When: From March 21, 2012
Where: Canberra Theatre
Tickets: Bookings online at Canberraticketing or (02) 6275 2700
Sydney
When: From April 3, 2012
Where: The Sydney Theatre
Tickets: Bookings online at Sydney Theatre, (02) 9250 1999 or Ticketek, 132 849
PERTH, BRISBANE, ADELAIDE seasons announced soon.
If you’ve never seen Yes Minister or its laudable child Yes Prime Minister, then you’ve missed a crucial political education. It was there that the beguilingly evil Sir Humphrey Appleby and the guileless Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP rose to greatness while leaving their colleagues and constituents confused.
This was a rich television comedy which offered dependable zingers like, “Politicians like to panic, they need activity. It is their substitute for achievement.” Through artful humour, we were delivered to a troublingly real understanding of live in the upper end of the civil service.
Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne are, sadly, gone. Let us hope that this live revival of the characters they created has a fraction of their magic.
Helen Razer, Citysearch
Event Schedule
The Comedy Theatre
240 Exhibition St, Melbourne
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Start: 31 - Jan 2012
End: 26 - Feb 2012
Artist:
Philip Quast,Mark Owen-Taylor,John Lloyd-Fillingham
Canberra Theatre Centre
Civic Square, London Circuit, Canberra City
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Start: 21 - Mar 2012
End: 24 - Mar 2012
Artist:
Philip Quast,Mark Owen-Taylor,John Lloyd-Fillingham
Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay
22 Hickson Road, Sydney
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Start: 03 - Apr 2012
End: 22 - Apr 2012
Artist:
Philip Quast,Mark Owen-Taylor,John Lloyd-Fillingham
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Pragmatist
February 20, 2012
I cannot give a full review of this show because I was one of those who left at the interval. I was bored. The script was not as much a thrust and parry around political and bureaucratic issues as a series of soliloquies, some which were delivered brilliantly by Philip Quast earning applause and others simply boring, such as the debate (?) around climate change. The need to bring a more current feel was a little tedious. Sir Humphrey was a less inclined to carefully maintain the status quo of the Department and more inclined to line his pockets and showed much more open animosity and contempt to the incumbent Prime Minister. Carolyn Craig was unconvincing in her role as Claire Sutton but this may have been as much a self conscious script as poor acting. I hope it improved in the second half but I couldn't bring myself to sit through it.
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