Claim and Shame

2010

It’s the great 2010 parliamentary expenses scandal, commissioned at the time by Joanna Turner’s Baseless Fabric Theatre Company and performed at the Theatre 503.

Meg and Doug Jones are Labour’s golden couple. She has just won a stunning by-election victory to become one of Labour’s youngest MPs. He is the government’s favourite educationalist, with the accolade of Head Teacher of the Year.

But when it all starts to go sour, it does so with terrifying speed, until, mired in scandal, facing ruin and even prison, they find that their friends no longer want to know them.

The action takes place in the corridors and offices of the House of Commons between summer 2004 and spring 2010