Hair-triggered or hilarious? You decide, but James Corden’s magical performance in The Constituent is worth more than an egg salad in a New York restaurant, writes PATRICK MARMION

The Constituent

Old Vic Theatre, London

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Following his showdown over an omelette in a chi-chi New York restaurant, James Corden has acquired a bit of a reputation. 

But, whether you consider this portly Uxbridge man to be hair-triggered or hilarious, he brings all that and more to bear in a startling and moving return to the stage at London’s Old Vic — opposite Anna Maxwell Martin as a stressed-out ‘opposition’ MP.

Corden plays Alec, a British army veteran who’s turned to…