As Harold Wilson announced his shock resignation as Prime Minister in 1976, a sudden power vacuum took hold of the Labour government. Feuding cabinet giants – Denis Healey, Roy Jenkins, and Tony Crosland – all meet to decide who should succeed him.
Ostensibly friends and contemporaries at Oxford, they embark on their historic mission to make the Labour Party the natural party of government in the UK. The Gang of Three tells the story of how bitter rivalries and fractured friendships destroyed their mutual goal, instead opening the door to eighteen years of Conservative government.
This tense new political drama is directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward and written by play-writing duo Tom Salinsky and Robert Khan who now return to the King's Head Theatre, following two sold-out runs of their critically acclaimed play Brexit. Their previous works have included Kingmaker, Coalition, and Impossible.