A gripping historical drama that dramatises a crucial moment of English history. Premiered at Hampstead Theatre in October 2012. December 1648. The Army has occupied London. Parliament votes not to put the imprisoned king on trial; so the Army moves against Westminster in the first and only military coup in English history. What follows over the next fifty-five days; as Cromwell seeks to compromise with a king who will do no such thing; is nothing less than the forging of a new nation; an entirely new world. Howard Brenton#8217;s play depicts the dangerous and dramatic days when; in a country exhausted by Civil War; a few great men attempt to think the unthinkable: to create a country without a king. A forgotten era of revolutionary British history is fascinatingly unlocked... electrifying. Whatonstage.com [A] confident and idea-packed piece... It could have been a dour history lesson. Instead it engages with the present; raising some pungent questions about the kind of democracy we have in Britain today. Evening Standard
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