This House

It has been announced that James Graham's 2012 play This House will transfer to the Garrick Theatre for a limited run from 19th November 2016 to 25th February 2017, with an official opening on 30th November 2016.

Following two sell-out runs at the National Theatre and an upcoming run at Chichester Festival Theatre, this political drama received strong reviews when it opened at the National's Cottesloe Theatre on 18th September 2012 and went on to run at the larger Olivier Theatre from February to May 2013.

'1974. The UK faces economic crisis and a hung parliament. In a culture hostile to cooperation, it's a period when votes in the House of Commons are won or lost by one, when there are fist fights in the bars and when sick MPs are carried through the lobby to register their vote. It's a time when a staggering number of politicians die, and the building creaks under idiosyncrasies and arcane traditions.'

The drama is set in the engine rooms of Westminster and aims to strip 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.