I think it was Winston Churchill who said the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. You have seen what happened when people were asked to vote in Britain and America recently. Audiences, attending Rob Drummond’s Majority, are provided with electronic voting pads. The system quickly established that 90% of the audience were liberal, 93% white, 40% male, 65% social media users. No surprises there, then.
Drummond’s one-man show, hardly a play, is a 90-minute affable chat in which he confronts a number of moral conundrums, including the familiar runaway train scenario, in which we are given a choice in certain life-threatening circumstances as to whom we would save and whom we would kill. The performance would have more punch if it ended with the audience having a proper verbal debate.