Wilko – Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll at Southwark Playhouse Borough review

Maitland, formerly an eminent broadcast journalist, has a reputation as a playwright who entertainingly dramatizes real people and situations, which baffles me. The Interview, about Martin Bashir’s Panorama confab with Princess Diana, at the Park theatre in 2023, was clunky and morally suspect. Wilko is worse than that. It’s dull and utterly leaden, when Mr Johnson’s story positively howls for menace, abandon and excitement.