Michael Moore is set to star in a Broadway show aimed at taking down Donald Trump.

The Oscar-winning film-maker will bring The Terms of My Surrender to the stage with help from Tony-winning director Michael Mayer. His credits include Spring Awakening and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

“It’s a humorous play about a country that’s just elected a madman – I mean, there’s really no other way to put it,” he said in an interview with the New York Times. The promotional poster reads: “Can a Broadway show bring down a sitting president?”

The show will run for 12 weeks with eight shows a week, and unlike his recent film Michael Moore in TrumpLand, it won’t be a one-man show but “a very developed piece of entertainment for people who like to think”. Mayer has claimed it’s not a play but “a theater piece” which will boast some surprise guests.

“We’re 10 blocks from Trump Tower, we’re in the corporate capital of America, we’re in the financial capital of America, we’re in the media capital of America,” Moore said. “If one was going to stand on a stage and do the things that I’m going to do, there’s only one place to do it, and it’s here in this city and it’s right here at the epicenter of creative expression and free speech.”

Moore’s film credits include Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, which won him the Oscar for best documentary in 2003. At a recent Tribeca screening of the film, he said: “We could release this film again this Friday and it sadly would probably be every bit as relevant.”

Previews for The Terms of My Surrender will begin on 28 July at the Belasco Theatre before opening on 10 August.