Margaret Thatcher: Queen Of Soho was an irreverent alternative history of the Iron Lady.

Imagine if, instead of imposing Section 28 she transformed herself into a cabaret superstar!

Now she was here to tell us her story and delight us with her disco cover songs.

Matt Tedford played Thatcher with incredible skill and dexterity with fantastic attention to detail. This was a role he had inhabited for two years and his enjoyment of the satire still shone through.

Two stage hands made this performance so much more than a drag act, pulling in nifty devices and flamboyant characterisations. The rapport between the three performers was joyful to watch.

The venue did experience some technical difficulties and the performers at times seemed to battle against the huge stage space and auditorium.

A more intimate, cabaret style venue would have brought the audience into the action more effectively and reduced the tendency to shout down the microphones to fill the space.

This piece of comedy theatre triumphed in portraying a detestable caricatured public figure as dynamic and sympathetic, using the bold, larger than life aesthetic of cabaret to subvert our expectations and explore political themes in an unusual way.

Four stars