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To promise nearly fifty million people truly universal health care - 'cradle to the grave' - is crackers. 1945. In a country exhausted and crippled by debt after six years of war, time is up for Winston Churchill's Tories. With a rallying cry for change, Labour wins an astonishing, landslide election victory. Clement Attlee may be an unlikely prime minister and his cabinet of competing heavyweights - from the loyal Ernest Bevin to scheming Herbert Morrison - argue furiously about how to realise their manifesto: to make a welfare state, build millions of homes, reorganise dilapidated schools, and most dramatically, create a National Health Service that is free at the point of need. Driven by the passionate and courageous radical Ellen Wilkinson, and the visionary firebrand Nye Bevan, a very British revolution is in the air. But in the face of bitter opposition, is this an audacious pledge of hope or a promise too far?T01016164950Paul Unwin's new drama is a fascinating, deeply pertinent portrayal of the people who moulded modern Britain and what it cost them.Producer Chichester Festival Theatre. Director Jonathan Kent. Lighting Peter Mumford. Director Annelie Powell (CDG - casting). DramaturgHarry Mackrill. Other Matt Ledbury (production manager). Performer Suzanne Burden (Violet Attlee). Performer Clare Burt (Ellen Wilkinson). Performer Reece Dinsdale (Herbert Morrison). Performer Martyn Ellis (Winston Churchill). Performer Felixe Forde (Joan Vincent). Performer Peter Hamilton Dyer (Richard Stafford-Cripps). Performer Richard Harrington (Nye Bevan). Performer Allison McKenzie (Jennie Lee). Performer Majid Mehdizaheh-Valoujerdy (Thomas Merriman). Performer Miles Richardson (Hugh Dalton). Performer David Robb (Lord Moran). Performer Clive Wood (Ernest Bevin). Performer Andrew Woodall (Clement Attlee). | |
| 19 Jul 24 to 17 Aug 24 | Minerva Theatre, Chichester :: V1310317653 listing details L064181732 |
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