NATIONAL Theatre Live’s I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare and the live broadcast will be shown at Cardigan’s Theatr Mwldan on January 31 (7pm).

Pauline Gibson is a junior doctor, who becomes the face of a campaign to save her local hospital. She’s thrust from angel of the NHS, to becoming an independent MP.

In the Houses of Parliament, she crosses paths with her university boyfriend, Jack Gould, a stalwart Labour loyalist, climbing the ranks of the party.

As media and public pressure mounts on Pauline to run for leadership of the Labour party, she faces an agonising decision.

What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?

Hare’s explosive new play, set in a very different 2018, portrays personal choices and their public consequences, through a 20- year intimate friendship.

Hare was recently described by The Washington Post as ‘the premiere political dramatist writing in English’. His other work includes Pravda and Skylight, broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.

“David Hare’s Labour play hits political bullseyes. A terrific performance from Siân Brooke,” says the Guardian.

“Absorbing. A passionate, fluent production,” writes the Independent.

Tickets for National Theatre Live screenings are priced at £12.50 full price (£11.50 concessions) and are available now from Theatr Mwldan’s box office on 01239 621200, on-line at www.mwldan.co.uk or via the Mwldan app.