National Theatre Live: This House
15/05/2013
3h
It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority government by sending its whips out wheeling and dealing with the Liberals, Scottish Nationalists and Northern Irish politicians. But this fragile alliance lasts only until October, when another election is called. This time, Labour win with a tiny majority of just three. Now things get tougher as old cross-Party agreements break down and even sick and dying MPs are wheeled into the chamber to cast their votes! James Graham's acclaimed new play whisks us back to the days of the UK's previous hung Parliament, when politics got really dirty in the battle for power.
Cast
Vincent Franklin
Michael Cocks
Phil Daniels
Bob Mellish
Lauren O'Neill
Ann Taylor
Julian Wadham
Humphrey Atkins
Charles Edwards
Jack Weatherill
Reece Dinsdale
Walter Harrison
David Hounslow
Joe Harper
Gunnar Cauthery
Clockmaker / Peebles / Redditch / Birmingham Perry Barr
Christopher Godwin
Woolwich West / Batley & Morley / Western Isles
Andrew Havill
Walsall North / Serjeant at ArmsAct 1 / Speaker Act 2 / Plymouth Sutton
Helena Lymbery
Rochester & Chatham / Welwyn & Hatfield / Coventry South West / Lady Batley
Matthew Pidgeon
Paddington South / Chelmsford / South Ayrshire / Henley
Giles Taylor
Speaker Act 1 / Mansfield / Serjeant at Arms Act 2 / West Lothian
Tony Turner
Bromsgrove / Abingdon / Liverpool Edge Hill / Paisley / Fermanagh
Rupert Vansittart
Esher / Belfast West
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