I wish I could recommend this. Some of the performers are capable of good turns when given the right material -- Ian Carmichael (with that half-crazed grin), Alistair Sim, Richard Wattis.
But this production looks as if a couple of blokes had sat down at a table and, snickering to themselves, sketched out a story of two candidates -- one labor, one conservative -- who fall in love with one another and then it all ends happily.
Well, the potential is there but it's never rendered kinetic except during certain farcical moments, which aren't very funny either. The situations should promote laughs but plots need help. Everything seems flat and desperate rather than inspired. Where's the wit in the dialog? Where is the occasional political sting? A disappointment.
But this production looks as if a couple of blokes had sat down at a table and, snickering to themselves, sketched out a story of two candidates -- one labor, one conservative -- who fall in love with one another and then it all ends happily.
Well, the potential is there but it's never rendered kinetic except during certain farcical moments, which aren't very funny either. The situations should promote laughs but plots need help. Everything seems flat and desperate rather than inspired. Where's the wit in the dialog? Where is the occasional political sting? A disappointment.