Steve Nallon, Graham Seed, Jonathan Maitland

In 1989 the seemingly invincible Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sacked Geoffrey Howe, her Foreign Secretary. She apparently had nothing to fear from him; his speaking skills had, famously, been compared to those of a dead sheep.

However, a year later, inspired by his wife Elspeth’s notoriously frosty relationship with Thatcher, Howe overcame his limitations to destroy his one-time friend and political soul mate with one of history’s great political speeches.

Dead Sheep, which opened in London to huge critical acclaim in 2015, tells this true story in a drama tinged with tragedy and comedy. Starring the extraordinary Spitting Image legend Steve Nallon as Margaret Thatcher and Graham Seed (Nigel Pargetter in The Archers) as Ian Gow, its themes – loyalty, love, political morality and Britishness – are as relevant today as they were a quarter of a century ago.