Casting confirmed for major UK tour of I’M SORRY, PRIME MINISTER
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Casting has been announced for the major UK tour of I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, the final chapter in the evergreen comedy series, which opens at Cambridge Arts Theatre on 19 May, and tours until August 2026.
The production is currently running at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End until 9 May.
The cast includes Clive Francis, who is reprising the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby, which he performed at the Barn Theatre, and is currently in the West End, alongside Simon Rouse in the role of Ex-Prime Minister Jim Hacker. Princess Donnough also plays the role of Sophie, which she is currently performing in the West End, with further casting for the tour to be announced.
From the BAFTA Award-winning co-creator of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, Jonathan Lynn, comes the long-awaited final chapter of British political satire — and it is as cutting, and catastrophically funny as ever.
Jim Hacker is back — older, but perhaps not wiser, and still utterly baffled by the real world. Hoping for a quiet retirement from Government as the master of Hacker College, Oxford, Jim instead finds himself facing the ultimate modern crisis: cancelled by the college committee. Enter Sir Humphrey Appleby (played by the acclaimed Clive Francis), who has lost none of his love for bureaucracy, Latin phrases, and well-timed obstruction.
Can Humphrey and Jim out manoeuvre the hostile students, the Fellows, and reality itself? Or is it finally time to say, "I’m Sorry, Prime Minister..."? Brimming with razor-sharp wit, nostalgic brilliance, and more double-speak than a press briefing, this is political comedy at its most timeless — and timely.
Following Cambridge, the tour will visit Richmond, Bath, Woking, Canterbury, Cheltenham, Milton Keynes, York, Brighton, Southend, and Malvern.
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