One of the few things I enjoy even more than theatre is talking politics. So chairing a post-show discussion about a brilliant new political play, written and directed by a Westminster insider and lifelong activist, really is my idea of bliss. At the White Bear Theatre, I got to do just that for Triggered, Emma Burnell’s new play about a fictional deselection of a Labour MP ahead of the 2019 General Election.
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!
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!
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.
‘Is the play crammed too full?’: I’M NOT RUNNING – National Theatre
David Hare’s latest play I’m Not Running at the National Theatre is set in an alternative reality that is more 2008 than 2018 and says nothing about Labour’s current malaise.
Text of the Day: Labour of Love
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Text of the Day: Labour of Love
Text of the day: “Well, what’s happening is if you’re Northern, you’re getting butchered, it’s like Game of fucking Thrones.”
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LABOUR OF LOVE – West End
James Graham’s latest play covers twenty-seven years of the life of a small town Labour MP across two-and-a-half hours, but it’s frustratingly a middling affair. As a satirical comedy, it’s nowhere close to being as vicious as The Thick of It, or as wittily intelligent as Yes, Minister.
LABOUR OF LOVE – West End
Comedy about Labour Party history is starry, but politically reactionary and tediously overblown.
THE MARCH ON RUSSIA – Orange Tree Theatre
David Storey’s family celebration drama of 1989 is typically natural, subtle and poignant, but also retro
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NEWS: Tamsin Greig takes over from Sarah Lancashire in Labour of Love, opening postponed
Olivier Award-winning actress Tamsin Greig will now play Jean Whittaker opposite Martin Freeman as David Lyons in the world premiere of James Graham’s Labour of Love.
NEWS: Martin Freeman & Sarah Lancashire star in James Graham’s new Labour of Love
James Graham’s new play about the Labour Party, Labour of Love, premieres in September at the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre, starring Martin Freeman and Sarah Lancashire.
Twitter onstage: What’s the difference between a troll & a social justice warrior?
As a Twitter geek, one of the things I enjoyed most about David Baddiel‘s latest one-man show My Family: Not the Sitcom, now running at the Playhouse Theatre, is how he so successfully employs social media in his storytelling.
Just how relevant to today is Steve Waters’ Limehouse?
“Labour is fucked!” roars Goodman-Hill’s Owen to open Limehouse. And the next hour and forty minutes watching the Gang of Four debate ideologies, divided loyalties and political contexts, including the hard-left’s anti-EU stance, leave you in no doubt just how relevant the play is to the party’s woefully position today.
Text of the Day: Limehouse
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
Text of the Day: Limehouse
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
MY COUNTRY; A WORK IN PROGRESS – National Theatre & touring
Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a production that has all the acrid flavour of virtue signalling.
LIMEHOUSE – Donmar Warehouse
Politics is a serious business, but it’s also a fun spectator sport. Think of the duels in Prime Minister’s Questions; or the marathon that is Brexit.
5 shows to look out for in March: An American in Paris, Stepping Out, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? & more
Here is Love London Love Culture’s guide to five of the best shows opening in the capital in March 2017 that you might want to see… Click on links to BUY tickets in the Mates Ticket Shop.
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