Churchill’s Urinal Q&A at the King’s Head Theatre. © Anthony Kelly
Actor-comedian Rosie Holt achieved viral fame during lockdown when she began posting videos posing as a hapless Conservative backbench MP – coincidentally also called Rosie Holt.
So convincing was she that, in addition to racking up millions of views, no fewer than three actually elected politicians called on her to resign from Parliament.
She continued to mine the UK’s rich seam of political satire as her MP crossed the aisle to join Labour in government, with equally disastrous, hilarious and uncomfortably close-to-the-bone results.
With Churchill’s Urinal, Holt makes her playwriting debut — and returns to the stage — inhabiting another political figure: the UK’s first female Chancellor, who, like Rachel Reeves, discovers that the private bathroom in her new office is equipped only with a urinal. One that, because it was once used by Winston Churchill, cannot be removed.
Following this evening’s performance at the King’s Head Theatre, I was joined onstage by Rosie Holt, director Daniel Clarkson, and Michael Lambourne, who plays the titular urinal — as well as myriad other parts.
Topics ranged across stand-up versus theatre, the online trolling of high-profile women (do rape threats really count as just ‘trolling’?, competing views on Churchill’s legacy, the concerning quagmire of modern politics, and — perhaps most pressingly — what on earth should be done with Churchill’s actual urinal.
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Event photography by © Anthony Kelly.
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