This House

This House is one of the National Theatre's biggest hits of recent years. The show premiered at the Cottesloe Theatre, but demand for tickets was so huge, it quickly transferred to the much larger Olivier stage, before a sell-out run in the West End. With one of the biggest casts ever seen at the Theatre Royal, this extraordinarily prescient play takes on a new importance almost daily in the current political climate.

it's 1974. Edward Heath has been ousted and the Labour Party under Harold Wilson has formed a minority government. In an era of chaos, both hilarious and shocking, fi st fi ghts break out in the parliamentary bars, high-stake tricks and games are played, while sick or dying MPs are carried through the lobby to register their crucial votes as the government hangs by a thread.

Set in the engine rooms of Westminster, This House strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes; the whips who roll up their sleeves and on occasion bend the rules to shepherd and coerce a diverse chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.