Labour of Love Tickets

James Graham's new play, Labour of Love, gets its world premiere presented by The Michael Grandage Company and Headlong at the Noel Coward Theatre for a limited 10-week run.

Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig star in this current political comedy about the Labour Party. In the party's traditional northern heartands, the play follows MP David Lyons (plyed by Martin Freeman) and his constituency agent  Jean Whittaker (Greig). The play will track the party's story over 25 years from the Kinnock years all the way up to the latest election, with everything in between. The play explores the clash and divide between party philosophy, class and culture couldn't be more divided. 

James Graham will reunite with Headlong artistic director Jeremy Herrin following their previous collaboration on the National Theatre and West End hit play This House. No stranger to political plays, James Graham's works include The Vote which was broadcast on television on the night of the 2015 General Election, as well as Privacy which ran at the Donmar Warehouse and New York City. James raham's play Ink is also currently running in the West End at the Duke of York's.

Martin Freeman is best known for his screen roles in films such as 'The Hobbit', 'Love Actually' and 'The Hitchhiker's Guide the the Galaxy'. On TV his credits include 'Sherlock' and 'The Office'. His stage credits have included Volpone and Mother Courage and Her Children at the National Theatre as Clybourne Park at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2014 he starred in Jamie Lloyd's production Richard III at the Trafalgar Studios.

Tamsin Greig most recently appeared on stage in Twelfth Night at the National, and her TV credits include Episodes, Green Wing and Friday Night Dinner. Her other stage credits include The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner (Hampstead Theatre) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre). Sarah Lancashire will no longer be appearing in Labour of Love. 

Labour of Love Tickets are available now.