DOM – The Play – Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
This is a show which hits the ground running - a fast-paced production, directed by Michael Kingsbury.
It’s a comedy about Boris Johnson and his erstwhile Chief Adviser, Dominic Cummings, former Director of Vote Leave, and the architect of the Johnson election victory in 2019.
It tells the story of the EU Referendum Campaign and the Boris Johnson premiership from the point of view of Cummings.
This show, already seen in London and Windsor, has been shortened and updated for the Festival Fringe. The author, we are told, prefers to remain anonymous prompting speculation that it is the work of a Westminster ‘insider’.
The play opens with Dom speaking directly to the audience. He greets us as ‘weirdos and misfits’ - a reference to Cummings’s strange blog post in 2020 when he invit...