A puppet government
DESPITE legal exchanges with the DPP and Sean Fitzpatrick’s solicitors, Anglo: The Musical, a new show satirising Ireland’s boom-to-bust journey, begins tonight in Dublin. The legal intervention forced the show to axe a Sean Fitzpatrick puppet and to make alterations in content, but the creators say the satire’s potency has not been diluted.
“We are fully participating in the necessary process of law that must take place,” says the director, Michael Barker Caven. “We have no intention of putting that process at threat whatsoever. At the same time, we are not going to bow to censorship and we are not going to bow to unreasonable demands that are an attempt to castrate the show.”
