Adam Meggido’s comedy considers the PM’s blustering school performance as Richard III, drawing potent parallels to his current political position
, after reading an article that described the 18-year-old Johnson’s blustering performance in the school production. Eric Anderson, a former headteacher at Eton, once summed it up thus: “He hadn’t had time to learn the lines, so had pasted them up behind various pillars. The whole performance consisted of him running from one side of the stage to the other and failing to read it properly.”
Boris the Third, which Meggido will also direct, unfolds over the course of the rehearsals, the fateful school performance and its aftermath, but will contain potent parallels to modern-day politics and Johnson’s weakened position after his hollow victory in the recent confidence vote. Meggido plans to tweak the play up to and throughout its August run, depending on any developing Westminster intrigue.
Adam Meggido, second from left, with Ruth Bratt, Lauren Shearing and Andrew Pugsley in Showstopper! The Improvised Musical at the Other Palace in London in 2019., is fascinated by the role of clowning in Shakespeare’s plays. “The clown has a very particular licence in Shakespeare – he speaks truth through semblance to folly. The clown can undermine the king or queen without necessarily being executed.
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