A shocking modern creation, and a truly monstrous one as well,” wrote the journalist Simon Hoggart in the introduction to the ...

Their latest work is a dramatisation of A G Macdonell’s The Autobiography of a Cad, a satirical novel published in 1938 that ...

Now adapted for the stage by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, and directed by the Watermill’s artistic director Paul Hart, the piece retains much of its humour, but the monstrous behaviour of Fox-Ingleby ...

Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation of a forgotten political satire is slick but dramatically frustrating Scottish author AG Macdonell is probably best known for his 1933 social satire ...

To Hoggart’s list we might add any number of present-day politicians. Yet Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation resists ramming home obvious parallels. You might detect the use of a ...

“Goebbels decided Cad was actual evidence that the Reich should take over Britain. Which is a pretty good review to get,” says Hislop. Born in Pune, India, in 1895, Macdonell, who went to Winchester ...

The Autobiography of a Cad, an uber-stereotypical posh boy buffoon, bears no relation to any politicians, past, present or ...

James Mack as the Cad, in The Autobiography of A Cad - Alastair Muir ...

Political satire, romantic chanson, Peter Andre sings Frankie Valli and a Man for All Seasons - take your pick.