Whipping It Up
- By:
- Steve Thompson
- Management:
- Bush Theatre
- Cast:
- Richard Wilson, Robert Bathurst, Lee Ross, Fiona Glascott, Nicholas Rowe, Helen Schlesinger
- Director:
- Terry Johnson
- Design:
- Tim Shortall
- Sound:
- Fergus O'Hare
- Lighting:
- Simon Corder
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Steve Thompson follows Damages, his 2004 comic success about tabloid journalism, with this hilarious farcical satire set in the government Whips' office. The jokes, tumbling in well-organised cascades, are delivered with spot-on timing by a witty, intelligent cast. Richard Wilson is the irascible Chief Whip given to scatalogical anecdotes, Robert Bathurst his ex-public school deputy with delusions of Skywalker heroics and Lee Ross the wide-boy Junior Whip. This boys' club has two machiavellian female opponents - Helen Schlesinger's Delia, the crafty Opposition Chief Whip and a sexy young journalist, played by Fiona Glascott...
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