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Politically, we could barely live in more amazing times.
The euro zone is in crisis, the US may elect a man who proposed an open marriage to the second of his three wives, and our Prime Minister knifed her predecessor and requires the support of a Green party whose most ardent supporters live in densely concreted inner-city areas.
You couldn't make it up if you tried, and Jonathan Lynn has been trying for more than 30 years.
The co-creator of comedy Yes, Minister (later Yes, Prime Minister) lampooned the quirks of politics in his lauded television series and has now brought his most famous characters to the stage.
The show's name sums up the joke. While Prime Minister Jim Hacker is assisted by his cabinet secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and principal private secretary Bernard Woolley, the power and the permanence of the public service outweigh the whims of elected officials. The show's title has become shorthand for the inability of politicians to defeat the inertia of the bureaucracy.
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