Weapons Inspector Haunts Bush in British Satire

It is polling day in the United States and George W. Bush has gathered together his friends and family at the White House to celebrate his imminent re-election.

But the party is gate-crashed by a sinister U.N. weapons inspector, just back from 18 fruitless months wandering Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

He has a devastating report to deliver to the U.S. Congress and a few tough questions to ask Bush and his friends.

That, in short, is the plot of a new play by director Justin Butcher, whose first political farce, "The Madness of George Dubya," took London's theaterland by storm a year ago when it was staged during the build-up to the Iraq war.

"A Weapons Inspector Calls" is a similar offering -- "slapstick, vulgar, brash entertainment," according to Butcher.

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