Churchill’s Urinal
This new comedy about a beleagured Chancellor of the Exchequer who finds herself in hot water when she attempts to dispose of a urinal that belonged to our wartime PM is written by Rosie Holt, a sketch comic best known for a series of pandemic-era web skits she made in which she cast herself as a supine Tory MP. Although Holt is a solid comic – she’s taken a couple of shows to Edinburgh – it has to be said that the big attraction here is inevitably the ‘additional material’ credit for the revered Stewart Lee (Holt’s partner). You get the impression he’s not heavily involved, but this is, technically, his first foray into theatre since the zeitgeist-munching Jerry Springer: The Opera caused outrage 25 years ago. It’s directed by Dan Clarkson and stars Holt herself.