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Oh, Mary!

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Trafalgar Theatre · London · Booking until 2 January

A frustrated First Lady wants cabaret, not presidential duty.

Comedy
The story

Mary Todd Lincoln is reimagined as a foul-tempered, heavy-drinking would-be cabaret star trapped in the White House while her husband attends to the Civil War. Her thwarted theatrical ambitions, unhappy marriage and consuming self-absorption drive a deliberately inaccurate version of history in which personal melodrama overwhelms national crisis.

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Cole Escola's one-act comedy uses farce, drag, period melodrama and blunt modern language, treating historical figures as vehicles for escalating absurdity rather than sober biography.

Good fit if you like

revisionist history, queer farce, cabaret fantasies and deliberately inaccurate political comedy.

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From 30 Jul 2026
Booking until 2 Jan 2027

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