For one night the East End chronicler went legit and up West. And Jonny Woo was in good company. His All-Star Brexit Cabaret boasted a bevy of luminaries from the comedy/cabaret/drag scene.
Richard Thomas, who co-created Jerry Springer: The Opera, penned the music to accompany Woo’s spiky, satirical words, making this resemble a scratch outing for Brexit: The Musical. No sets, just frothy, funny, frequently filthy songs, such as a heartfelt number where the lyrics essentially consisted of “oh s***”.
Sooz Kempner was on song in the double roles of David Cameron and Theresa May. Jayde Adams was outstandingly silly as Boris Johnson and baritone Le Gateau Chocolat cast Nigel Farage in a new light — as a bearded black man in drag.
While Myra Dubois stood out with her showboating vaudevillian patter, it was Woo’s evening, with the unapologetic Remainer adding a personal touch between his Marc Almondish vocals by mentioning that his Leaver father was in attendance.
The result was rough at the edges but pulled off the impossible — breathing life into a story that even the real protagonists must be tiring of by now.
