Theatr Clwyd, Mold
An inventive score and an intelligent script combine in this smart satire with nods to Jerry Springer: The Opera
The most provocative thing about this show is the title. Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth’s musical is definitely not a call for the murder of a self-styled hate figure. Rather, it’s an intelligent, thoughtful and often wryly enjoyable look at the polarisation of public debate in the age of social media, and what happens when it ceases to be a discourse and becomes a mere echo chamber. Lucy Osborne’s design of stairs, platforms and movable screens features the lights of thousands of endlessly winking mobile phones.
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