PARTY GAMES!
18th May 2024
Tickets from £21.50
Running time approx 2 hours 10 minutes
Age guidance: 12+ Advisory
Content warnings: Adult Language
Production warnings:
A FREE pre-show Q&A will be held on Tuesday 14th May for ticket-holders to the 19:30 performance to hear from the writer, Michael McManus, in conversation with director Joanna Read!
‘Party Games! bears the power play and insider knowledge of a Yes, Prime Minister’
The Times
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – ‘McManus gives us a revealing insider’s view of government that will have you belly laughing throughout.’
Fairy Powered Productions
⭐⭐⭐⭐ – ‘A light-hearted yet thought-provoking political satire … simply exceptional!’
Adventures in Theatreland
AN YVONNE ARNAUD ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
Starring Matthew Cottle, Debra Stephenson and Ryan Early
This is the UK, 2026, John Waggner newly elected leader of the hastily formed centrist One Nation Party presides over a hung parliament, a discontented electorate and striking cheese makers.
He and his power-hungry MPs must cling onto authority through whatever shaky means possible. Can one man, a Svengali spin doctor and some dodgy data unite the country? And what role can his wife, the King and a large spider play in keeping the lights on?
A hilariously acerbic new comedy by Michael McManus, the writer of Maggie & Ted, directed by Joanna Read.
Starring Matthew Cottle (of BAFTA nominated BBC sitcom Game On and Channel 4’s hit comedy The Windsors), Debra Stephenson (Bad Girls, Coronation Street) and Ryan Early (Coronation Street, The Archers), Party Games! puts political leadership on the ledge and goes inside the chaos of government to see whether advisers do advise and if ministers can decide.