National Theatre Live: This House

Overview

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

N/A

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