LONDON -- A British play that pokes fun at President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair is slowly becoming a popular diversion.
Justin Butcher's satire, "The Madness of George Dubya," is scheduled to run at least through May 17 at central London's Arts Theatre. This is the third auditorium for the play that opened quietly in January in a small theater in north London and has since been gathering steam.
In the play, Bush is portrayed as an overgrown baby who appears in pajamas, clutching his teddy bear and preparing a war on "Iraqistania."
As Dubya, Thomas Arnold butchers one reference after another: the Cuban naval base Guantanamo Bay becomes "Guacamole Bay"; Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams becomes "Gerry Saddams"; weapons of mass destruction are called weapons of mass "distraction".
"The Madness of George Dubya" takes its name from an Alan Bennett play, and subsequent film, about King George III, who over time went mad. The play's subtitle is "Strangelove Revisited," in homage to the corrosive Stanley Kubrick film.
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