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Prescient parliamentary power struggle
Party time in Parliament: This House [Johan Persson]

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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