National Theatre Live: This House (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.

Cast

Michael Cocks
Bob Mellish
Rochester & Chatham / Welwyn & Hatfield / Coventry South West / Lady Batley
Paddington South / Chelmsford / South Ayrshire / Henley
Speaker Act 1 / Mansfield / Serjeant at Arms Act 2 / West Lothian
Bromsgrove / Abingdon / Liverpool Edge Hill / Paisley / Fermanagh
Esher / Belfast West
Humphrey Atkins
Jack Weatherill
Walter Harrison
Joe Harper
Clockmaker / Peebles / Redditch / Birmingham Perry Barr
Woolwich West / Batley & Morley / Western Isles
Walsall North / Serjeant at ArmsAct 1 / Speaker Act 2 / Plymouth Sutton

Crew

Set Designer
Lighting Design
Wig Designer
Makeup & Hair Assistant