The Promise
By Paul Unwin
Chichester Observer Review
Just as we enter the first few weeks of a new Labour landslide in our own moment of seismic change, Unwin’s play takes us back to Labour’s 1945 landslide and into the hearts and minds of the people who effectively created modern Britain...
The Stage Review
The parallels couldn't be closer between the post-Second World War slice of history recreated in Paul Unwin's new political drama and the Tory-Labour handover we're in the middle of now...
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By Helen Murray
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The Promise
Chichester Festival Theatre
“Enjoy it, boyo, this may be your last meal if Britain is bankrupt.” After Tim Price’s Nye, and Lucy Kirkwood’s Human Bodies, Paul Unwin’s The Promise – directed by Jonathan Kent at Chichester’s Minerva till August 17th – proclaims itself as the third of an accidental NHS trilogy… [ Read more ]
The Promise | Minerva Theatre Chichester | Review
The new leader ‘lacks charisma’ and one of his most prominent cabinet members is a redheaded outspoken northern female. Sound familiar? But this play is set not in 2024, but firmly in 1945 immediately following the end of the second world war… [ Read more ]
Why this play at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre is so full of promise
The birth of the NHS was not a straight-forward delivery for the new Labour government at the end of the second world war. Paul Unwin – who co-created TV’s longest-running medical drama Casualty – looks at the MPs who moulded modern Britain and what it cost them in this new drama… [ Read more ]
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Paul Unwin’s new drama The Promise is a fascinating, deeply pertinent portrayal of the people who moulded modern Britain and what it cost them...