National Theatre Live: This House

National Theatre Live: This House

159 mins | May 15, 2013

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.

National Theatre Live: This House

159 mins | May 15, 2013

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.
IMDb rating 7.9
Producers National Theatre of Great Britain Production
Original title National Theatre Live: This House
Directors Jeremy Herrin
Writers James Graham

Cast

Vincent Franklin

as Michael Cocks

Phil Daniels

as Bob Mellish

Lauren O'Neill

as Ann Taylor

Julian Wadham

as Humphrey Atkins

Charles Edwards

as Jack Weatherill

Reece Dinsdale

as Walter Harrison

David Hounslow

as Joe Harper

Gunnar Cauthery

as Clockmaker / Peebles / Redditch / Birmingham Perry Barr

Christopher Godwin

as Woolwich West / Batley & Morley / Western Isles

Andrew Havill

as Walsall North / Serjeant at ArmsAct 1 / Speaker Act 2 / Plymouth Sutton

Helena Lymbery

as Rochester & Chatham / Welwyn & Hatfield / Coventry South West / Lady Batley

Matthew Pidgeon

as Paddington South / Chelmsford / South Ayrshire / Henley

Giles Taylor

as Speaker Act 1 / Mansfield / Serjeant at Arms Act 2 / West Lothian

Tony Turner

as Bromsgrove / Abingdon / Liverpool Edge Hill / Paisley / Fermanagh

Rupert Vansittart

as Esher / Belfast West