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National Theatre Live: This House

85 %|May 15, 2013|Comedy, Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Jeremy Herrin
Director
James Graham
Writer
Rae Smith
Set Designer
Paul Anderson
Lighting Design
Fiona Matthews
Wig Designer
Fiona Matthews
Makeup & Hair Assistant

Cast

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Vincent Franklin
Michael Cocks
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Phil Daniels
Bob Mellish
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Lauren O'Neill
Ann Taylor
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Julian Wadham
Humphrey Atkins
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Charles Edwards
Jack Weatherill
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Reece Dinsdale
Walter Harrison
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David Hounslow
Joe Harper
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Gunnar Cauthery
Clockmaker / Peebles / Redditch / Birmingham Perry Barr
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Christopher Godwin
Woolwich West / Batley & Morley / Western Isles
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Andrew Havill
Walsall North / Serjeant at ArmsAct 1 / Speaker Act 2 / Plymouth Sutton
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Helena Lymbery
Rochester & Chatham / Welwyn & Hatfield / Coventry South West / Lady Batley
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Matthew Pidgeon
Paddington South / Chelmsford / South Ayrshire / Henley
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Giles Taylor
Speaker Act 1 / Mansfield / Serjeant at Arms Act 2 / West Lothian
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Tony Turner
Bromsgrove / Abingdon / Liverpool Edge Hill / Paisley / Fermanagh
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Rupert Vansittart
Esher / Belfast West