Sarah Lancashire and Martin Freeman in Labour Of Love
- Martin Freeman will play a Labour MP in a new West End production
- The comedy follows an MP and his agent, each with differing priorities for party and policy
- Sarah Lancashire will co-star as the constituency agent in Labour Of Love
Martin Freeman and Sarah Lancashire are to take the lead roles in a new comedy coming to the West End stage.
Labour Of Love, by James Graham, is set to play at the Noël Coward Theatre from 15th September for an 11-week run, ending on 2nd December 2017.
Described as a "razor-sharp political comedy", the production reunites Graham and director Jeremy Herrin after their previous collaboration on 2012's This House, another political play, set in the late 1970s.
Freeman will star in the new production as Labour MP David Lyons, with Lancashire playing his electoral agent, Jean. Offering an insight into the split in the Labour Party from the early 1990s onwards, the play will see the pair clash on political priorities and policies over a 25 year period.
Producers say: "Labour MP David cares about modernisation and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of philosophy, culture and class against the backdrop of the Labour Party over 25 years as it moves from Kinnock through Blair into Corbyn... and beyond?"
Tickets for the production are now booking