Loyalty

Based upon real life experience to create a fascinating and insightful new play. ‘I felt I should say congratulations on winning the election but I couldn’t find the words...There were suddenly three of us in our relationship.’In the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the pressure on the UK government to commit to joining the American cause was escalating. And in one Stockwell household the pressure had completely erased the line between the political and the personal – the home of Laura and her husband Nick…Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff. With the crisis coming to a head, Nick and Laura struggle to protect their relationship as Nick attempts to guide Tony Blair through one of the greatest controversies of our time.