Anti-trump satire opens in July

Serial provocateur Michael Moore is to make his Broadway debut with a satire aimed at Donald Trump.

The rabble-rouser describes The Terms Of My Surrender as ‘a humorous play about a country that’s just elected a madman’, rather than stand-up.

And producers call it an ‘hysterical theatrical coup d'etat that takes the utter lunacy of our times and turns it into a subversive piece of theatre… guaranteed to take audiences on a ride through the United States of Insanity, explaining once and for all how the fuck we got here’.

he one-man show is being directed by Michael Mayer, whose credits include Spring Awakening,  for which he won a Tony Award, American Idiot and Hedwig And The Angry Inch.

He said: ‘I think What The World Needs right now is Michael Moore standing on a Broadway stage sharing his hilarious stories and incendiary political perspective, creating the kind of dialogue that can only happen in the theatre.’

Meanwhile, in an interview with the New York Times, Moore said: ‘I think people will find themselves laughing one minute and wanting to go look for some pitchforks and torches the next’

The show starts at the 1,018-seat Belasco  Theatre on July 28 and will run for 12 weeks.

Published: 1 May 2017