by Howard Brenton

directed by Howard Davies

designed by Vicki Mortimer

approx. 2h 50, incl. 20min. interval

from 17.3.2008,(23.5.08)

Harold Macmillan:                      Jeremy Irons
The young Harold Macmillan:            Pip Carter
Nellie Macmillan, his mother:          Anna Carteret
Dorothy Macmillan:                     Anna Chancellor
Winston Churchill:                     Ian McNeice
Anthony Eden:                          Anthony Calf
Robert "Bob" Boothby:                  Robert Glenister
Neville Chamberlain:                   Terrence Hardiman
Selwyn Lloyd:                          Peter Forbes
Dwight D Eisenhower:                   Clive Francis
Young Harry Crookshank:                Ben Addis
Older Harry Crookshank:                Terence Wilton
Ronald Knox:                           Tim Frances
Sergeant Robinson:                     Nicholas Lumley
Smithson:                              Jonathan Battersby

Ensemble:                              Sarah Head, Sioned Jones, Anne Kavanagh,
                                       Charlotte Melia, Roger Ringrose, Janet Spencer-Turner,
                                       Claire Winsper & Rupert Young

Harold MacMillian's life told in flashbacks and his resignation provoked by a looming sex scandal of one of his ministers.