4th - 7th June 2025

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James Graham’s Olivier-winning comedy, charting 25 years of political and romantic turbulence, is both a history of the Labour party and a love story.

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MP David Lyons parachuted into Parliament with Tony Blair’s generation of centre-left politicos focused on electability and effectiveness.

His local office director, Jean Whittaker, firmly believes in the pro-union, far-left policies that have historically served his constituency deep in the heart of British coal country… a district that in 2018 just might turn conservative for the first time in a century.  

Unfolding over decades, across multiple election nights, through economic booms and busts, this wickedly funny clash of values and class reflects a shifting political landscape that will resonate for anyone asking, “Whither the Democrats?”​​