The full title of Committee, the verbatim musical, is The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence on Whitehall’s Relationship with Kids Company. The music is by Tom Deering. The book and lyrics by Hadley Fraser and Josie Rourke and edited from the parliamentary transcript.
Kids Company was founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh in 1996 to provide practical, emotional and educational support for vulnerable inner city children and young people. It closed in 2015, bankrupt.
The MPs fail to get the charismatic fundraiser (charismatically played by Sandra Marvi) to answer their questions. MP Paul Flynn tweeted the committee was “drowned in a tsunami of Technicolour blancmange, oozing psychobabble, emotional blackmail and verbal ectoplasm.” Much as I enjoyed the singing, the singing often robs the dialogue of its audibility and sting.