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Prescient parliamentary power struggle
Party time in Parliament: This House
[Johan Persson]
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This House
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Leeds/Touring
FIRST staged in 2012 at the National Theatre and now touring nationally, the contemporary political parallels in This House are more striking now than ever.
A fictionalised account of the minority Labour government of 1974-79, James Graham's play details the machinations of the power struggle with an intensity that’s only broken by moments of incisive humour.
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