A tale of one evening told from two different viewpoints, Walk of Shame is the latest production from Glass Half Full Theatre. At the start of Christmas party season, it brings the story of Alice and Liam to the White Bear Theatre.
FEATURED SHOW: An Honourable Man at the White Bear Theatre, ★★★★ are in for ‘a political play with a difference’
An Honourable Man, the debut play from Westminster insider Michael McManus, is undoubtedly “a political play with a difference”, declares Terry Eastham in his four-star praise for the premiere production at the White Bear Theatre. What have other critics – including Mates Libby Purves (Theatre Cat), Anne Cox (Stage Review) and Emma Clarendon (Love London Love Culture) – been saying? We’ve rounded up some of our favourite review highlights below. Time to get booking!
‘Gets my vote’: AN HONOURABLE MAN – White Bear Theatre
Michael McManus’ An Honourable Man which has arrived at London’s White Bear Theatre, after a successful tryout earlier this year.
PHOTOS: First look at An Honourable Man en route to Downing Street
After a try-out in June, the Popular People’s Movement has returned to the White Bear Theatre en route to Westminster (or perhaps the West End?) care of An Honourable Man, a frighteningly timely new political drama written by Parliamentary insider Michael McManus. Check out our first-look production photos gallery – and then get booking!
An Honourable Man Q&A video: What’s the difference between populist & popular?
Populism, patriotism, political theatre, predictions for Brexit and the fast-paced nature of life-imitating-art-imitating-life were amongst the topics covered in an incredibly good-natured discussion across a wide partisan spectrum at the post-show debate I chaired for the premiere production of An Honourable Man.
‘Brings the tangled world of politics to life’: AN HONOURABLE MAN – White Bear Theatre
Michael McManus attempts to deal with the thorny issues of Brexit and whether it is possible to stay honourable in the world of politics in An Honourable Man at the White Bear Theatre.
‘This fascinating, timely play is steeped in bitter experience’: AN HONOURABLE MAN – White Bear Theatre ★★★★
Michael McManus – writer, formerly of the Press Complaints Commission and IPSO, has been a special adviser in three government departments over decades and made valiant attempts at getting selected himself. He knows the mould, and how mouldy it can get. So this fascinating, timely play, An Honourable Man, is steeped in bitter experience.
New post-show Q&A: Join Terri for Michael McManus’ explosive new political play An Honourable Man
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 21 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz writer and activist Michael McManus, plus special guests from Westminster, about frighteningly timely new political An Honourable Man. Got any questions?
Where’s British politics heading? WATCH our interviews with An Honourable Man’s writer & director
Politics seems crazy everywhere at the moment. How much crazier could it get here in the UK? Political adviser and author Michael McManus’s debut play An Honourable Man considers how populism might upend everything. In the first instalment of a featured video series, watch our interviews with McManus and director Jolley Gosnold. Time to get booking!
NEWS: Michael McManus’ An Honourable Man, about the rise of a new populist party, premieres at the White Bear
Political adviser and author Michael McManus makes his playwriting debut with An Honourable Man, the story of how Momentum’s attempt to deselect a mainstream Labour MP unleashes a populist uprising. The up-to-the-minute play, that has Westminster commentators buzzing, gets its world premiere this month at London’s White Bear Theatre.