National Theatre Live: This House

Status:
Released
Production:
National Theatre
Aired:
2013-05-15
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.
Comedy
Drama
Characters

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