Churchill’s Urinal review – Rosie Holt’s pisstake chancellor turns it up to No 11
King’s Head theatre, London
An office toilet once used by the wartime PM sparks a culture war in this frenzied show about politics and patriarchy
When Rachel Reeves became chancellor in 2024, she said it felt like “smashing one of the last glass ceilings in politics”. But the presence in her office toilet at the Treasury of a urinal, thought to have been used by Winston Churchill, proved that there are some obstacles that can’t be overturned. Reeves would just have to tolerate this symbol that puts the “pee” in patriarchy.
For Churchill’s Urinal, writer and actor Rosie Holt takes a frenzied approach to the problem. Her sustained mania, familiar from her viral pandemic videos as a Tory backbencher, suggests a one-person Thick of It, though there are occasional interjections from Michael Lambourne as the taunting Churchillian voice – and face – of the urinal: WC played by the WC. Talk about toilet humour.
المصدر: The Guardian — Stage