National Theatre Live: This House

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'Neil 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

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