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Home Comedy Whipping It Up
Whipping It Up

Whipping It Up

$27.99

ISBN: 9781854599575
Author: By Steve Thompson
Publication Date: 9/11/2006
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 96pp.
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SKU: BK2476 Categories: Comedy, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes Tag: Nick Hern Books
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A quick-witted satirical farce set in the Whips’ office at Westminster.

It’s a week before Christmas, and the new Tory government is facing dissent over its latest Bill. With a majority of only three, the Whips’ office is out in full force, and they’ll stop at nothing to keep the strays in line.

But they’re in for a long night: boy scouts are rioting in Whitehall, the PM’s golfing with the President, five Tory rebels are on the loose and the Chief Whip’s playing at Santa – could this be the beginnings of a leadership challenge?

Steve Thompson’s play Whipping It Up is a fast-moving switchback of a comedy, with more twists and double-bluffs than a poker game between conmen.

It was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in November 2006, in a production starring Richard Wilson. It transferred to the West End in March 2007.

‘The sharpest new comedy of the year’
— Telegraph

‘Pungent… the funniest political satire since Alistair Beaton’s Feelgood‘
— Guardian

‘A vitriolic political comedy that makes the average alligator pond look like a health spa’
— Sunday Times

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