Michael McManus Brings Provocative & Controversial Post-Brexit Play AN HONORABLE MAN Into First Full Production
Former Tory candidate and speechwriter Michael McManus brings his provocative and controversial, post-Brexit play An Honourable Man into its first full production.
After a highly successful, sell-out development run in the same venue in June, this abrasive and challenging, darkly funny and highly topical new political play returns to the White Bear Theatre for a three-week run, between Tuesday 20 November and Saturday 8 December.
Press night is Friday 23 November at 7.30pm
An Honourable Man directly challenges the prevailing orthodoxies of contemporary political theatre, charting the rise to national prominence of a populist, anti-immigration leader and his new Popular People's Movement.
Michael McManus commented: "As Michael Billington, amongst others, has wisely observed, almost all contemporary political writing reflects and embodies a very narrow and predictable spectrum of opinion. So far as I am aware, no other significant play in recent years has been written by anyone with a similar track record of front-line political activism within the Conservative Party.
"Theatre should be dangerous. It should challenge. It should shake people into re-examining their innermost values and beliefs. It should make them look at the world in different ways. It therefore has a profound responsibility to step outside its comfort zone and present opinions - however controversial they may be - from way beyond the liberal-left echo chamber.
"I very much hope and believe this piece may prove to be precisely that 'mischievous right-wing play', for which Nick Hytner issued his celebrated clarion call over a decade ago."
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