NT Live, Recorded Live
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre.
Director: Gregory Doran
Starring: Siân Brooke, Alex Hassell and Joshua McGuire
Pauline Gibson is a junior doctor, who becomes the face of a campaign to save her local hospital. She’s thrust from angel of the NHS, to becoming an independent MP. In the Houses of Parliament, she crosses paths with her university boyfriend, Jack Gould, a stalwart Labour loyalist, climbing the ranks of the party. As media and public pressure mounts on Pauline to run for leadership of the Labour party, she faces an agonising decision.
David Hare’s explosive new play, set in a very different 2018, portrays personal choices and their public consequences, through a twenty year intimate friendship.
(2hr 40min)
Tickets on sale from 23rd January 2019