MAKING NEWS was a satire about the BBC, based on an original reading starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
★★★★ Times,
“Barrel of laughs” ★★★★ Sunday Express
“More punch than a Paxman interrogation” ★★★★ Three Weeks
“Blackly comic fantasy” ★★★★ Edinburgh Guide
It starred Suki Webster, Dan Starkey, Hal Cruttenden, Phill Jupitus, Liam Williams and Sara Pascoe. It was presented at Pleasance One, Pleasance Edinburgh, August 2013 in a smash sell out run, also being featured on Newsnight Review and across press and other broadcast outlets.
The play – a fast moving satire – is set at the start of another relentless twenty-four hour news cycle. Rachel Clarke has been suddenly promoted to become the BBC’s newest head of news. When a crisis erupts she has to confront rivals both inside and outside the organisation, as well as deciding on how to report on a story that threatens to bring down the BBC itself.
Coalition
Edinburgh Fringe 2012, London 2013
Kingmaker
Edinburgh Fringe 2014, London and Brighton, 2015
Impossible
Edinburgh Fringe 2015
Brexit
Edinburgh Fringe 2018, London 2018–19
The Gang of Three
The King’s Head, May 2025; UK tour 2026
In the Print
The King’s Head, April 2026