No laugh a minute, but ‘Anglo’ is a great satire

With disgraced banker Seán FitzPatrick’s puppet banished to the storeroom of the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre for legal reasons, Anglo: The Musical could easily have been a case of Hamlet without the prince.

No laugh a minute, but ‘Anglo’ is a great satire

But with less than two weeks to replace FitzPatrick on legal advice, writer Paul Howard and his team rose to the occasion, and opening night was a success.

The most successful caricatures are Bertie Ahern and David McWilliams.

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