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A comedy about the creator of the welfare state

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Wed 9 Oct - Sun 13 Oct, 4pm & 7.30pm

About A Modest Little Man

May 1945. Britain celebrates victory and cheers Winston Churchill. The people who fought the war want a better world. But the Labour Party is led by a nonentity – “a modest little man with plenty to be modest about.” He says almost nothing. He sits in his grey suit and puffs his pipe. One wit remarked: “An empty taxi drew up and Clement Attlee got out.” How can the insignificant, passionless little Labour leader Clem Attlee possibly compete with Churchill?