Trump impersonator to star in ‘dark and surreal’ hotel tale
A Donald Trump impersonator is to stage a Fringe comedydrama about efforts to thwart of takeover by the American president of a “once-glamorous Scottish hotel”.
Lewis Mac leod, who was nominated for a Scottish Comedy Award for his mimicry of the tycoon, will join forces with leading impressionist Ronni Ancona to stage Just Checking In.
Ayrshire-born Ancona and Glaswegian Mac leod have previously teamed up on TV and with a live cabaret show to poke fun at the American president and his wife Melania.
The two Scots, best known for shows like Dead Ringers, Newzoids and The Big Impression, have created the show – which will form part of Gilded Balloon’s Fringe line-up – with Kim Fuller, the English comedy writer whose credits include Not The Nine O’clock News, The Lenny Henry Show, Spitting Image and Red Dwarf.
Macleod, who has regularly mimicked Trump on BBC Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright’ s show, has also provided the voice of Postman Pat in the popular children’s series and played Iain Tennant in the TV series The Crown. Billed as a “deliciously dark and surreal tale”, it will explore what happens when the hotel’s “eccentric staff and celebrity guests” try to join forces to sc upper Trump’ s plans and gr apple with a “menacing mystery” which has taken grip of the hotel.
The show has been announced five years after Trump snapped up the Turnberry hotel and golf resort in Ayrshire.
The tycoon was also involved in a long-running battle to create a brand new golf resort at Balmedie, in Aberdeenshire, which opened in 2012.