Overview
- Jonathan Lynn’s play, billed as the final chapter of the Yes Minister universe, has opened at London’s Apollo Theatre.
- Critics praise Clive Francis’s performance and the play’s elegiac focus on ageing and lost influence.
- Griff Rhys Jones’s portrayal of Jim Hacker draws complaints of miscasting and overbroad delivery.
- Reviewers describe the satire and plotting as thin, with extended debates on statues, Brexit and campus culture.
- The run is scheduled through 9 May, with a national tour reported to start from 19 May after an earlier 2023 tryout in Cirencester.