THIS HOUSE

JAMES GRAHAM’S alarmingly pertinent play explores Britain’s hung Parliament in 1974 and subsequent jostling for position by old-school Tories and working-class Labour bruisers tasting power for the first time in ages.

Starring Charles Woods and Phil Daniels on opposite sides of the House and directed with brio by Jeremy Herrin, this is an enormously entertaining and informative play about the state of the nation four decades ago.

While Graham wears his political erudition lightly, the party political shenanigans are observed with forensic accuracy.

Backstabbers in the corridors of Westminster? Check. Political and personal betrayals a go-go? Check. Manipulating votes by squeezing through Parliamentary loopholes? Check.

The class war has rarely seemed so funny or so relevant.