BORIS: WORLD KING to Open at Trafalgar Studios

Following a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe 2015 premiere, satirical comedy Boris: World King comes to London.

With his days as Mayor of London numbered, Britain's favourite comedy politician casts himself in another leading role: the star of his own West End show. This gaffe-a-minute comedy sees the thinking man's idiot wobbling on the brink of power. This rollicking tale packs in pay-as-you-go bikes, wiff-waff, and an ancient Greek lecture for good measure. Before long, verbal slips, trips and divine interruption cue a new battle - for his very political existence.

Boris Johnson: politician, columnist, biographer, TV personality, eighth cousin of David Cameron, and one of GQ magazine's Worst Dressed Men. And now, appearing nightly at the West End theatre closest to Downing Street!

David Benson stars as Boris Johnson. He is best known for his many solo shows including the Fringe First award-winning Think No Evil of Us: My Life With Kenneth Williams and Lockerbie: Unfinished Business. He played the Head Waiter in the original National Theatre production One Man, Two Guvnors with James Corden, completing over one thousand performances. Recent appearances include Doctor Who, as Frankie Howerd in the BBC Radio 4 play Frankie Takes a Trip, as Dracula with the Fitzrovia Radio Hour (Mercury, Colchester) and Nurse Nellie Nightshift in Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Royal Winchester). He played Noel Coward in the BBC series Goodnight Sweetheart and is a regular multi-voiced performer in the long-running audio series Iris Wildthyme and The Scarifyers.

Alice McCarthy plays Helen. She trained at Bristol Old Vic. She recently appeared in Rotterdam (Theatre503) and has just finished filming The Drone, an independent sci-fi short.

Yaz Al-Shaater is a director and filmmaker who trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He's worked with writer Tom Crawshaw since age 13, and is a director of Smooth Faced Gentlemen, the UK's only all-female Shakespeare company. Recent credits include Othello (Underbelly, UK Tour), Not The Messiah (Pleasance, Theatre 503, UK Tour), Titus Andronicus (York Theatre Royal, Greenwich Theatre, Edinburgh), and online sitcom Missing Something.

Tom Crawshaw is a writer of theatre and comedy and past winner of the Cameron Mackintosh New Writing Award. Recent theatre includes Nonsense & Sensibility (Upstairs at the Arts, London), Not The Messiah (Pleasance, Theatre 503 and UK tour), and Play On Words (Tristan Bates Theatre, Pleasance Courtyard, UK and international tour). Recent film and radio includes Missing Something (online), Adventure Time Ltd (podcast) and NewsJack (Radio 4 & 4 Extra).

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