She's very glad she changed her mind: "It's such a brilliant satire," she says.
Such a clever satire on the miseries of the unhappy Conservatives in postwar Socialist Britain.
A different problem for such a topical satire might be that none of it is, well, all that topical.
Even the starry acting of Sheila Hancock and Lee Evans, it was generally agreed, could do nothing to save such a coarse satire on new money and ignorance.
Dave Petruska of the Tucson Citizen listed "Homer the Great" as his favorite episode "because it is such a wonderful satire on fraternal organizations and because of Patrick Stewart's hilarious guest-starring role as "Number One".
For the writer of such a pointed, polemical satire, there is something watchful and slightly wary about Wade.
What makes the play such a great, enduring satire (one also adapted by Bertolt Brecht for his Threepenny Opera in 1928) is that the characters and relationships still ring true today (Cameron, Coulson, anybody?).
The New Yorker, July 2 , 1927P. 9 Movie of luxury in San Francisco made from a satire on such scenes.
Gelernter's article and Will's own astonishingly churlish, wildly exaggerated remarks are well worth adapting for a satire of such insurgencies.
