The party

The year is 1968; in Paris the événements - the student rising - are taking place. In the London drawing-room of a successful television producer a group of people meet to discuss the implications for them and their belief in a socialist society and how it can be achieved. The Party , commissioned by the National Theatre and with a cast including Laurence Olivier, Ronald Pickup, Frank Finlay and Denis Quilley, was first performed in 1973 and was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984.