The Tony Blair Rock Opera features bagpipes, Lady Macbeth and a wrestling match with Gordon Brown

By Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London

If you’re looking for subtlety and sophistication, Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera is probably not for you. It starts – literally – with a bang and careens through a hectic hour and a half of high-energy songs and skits.

The committed cast are happy to provide their audience with caricatures, as opposed to characters. John Prescott (Rosie Strobel) is portrayed as a professional northerner, Robin…

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