New Play GENERAL ELECTION Set for Finborough Theatre

The world premiere of a new play specially created in response to the General Election by award-winning actor/director Chris New opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of nine Sunday and Monday evening and Tuesday matinee performances from Sunday, 26 April 2015 - with a special extra performance on General Election day itself on Thursday, 7 May (Press Night: Monday, 27 April 2015 at 7.30pm).

Following the sell out run of The Precariat at the Finborough Theatre in 2013 and Smallholding at the Soho Theatre, Nuffield Theatre Southampton, and the High Tide Festival, director Chris New returns with a brand new play that will be written and developed in the lead up to the 2015 General Election.

Using material generated through a process of research, improvisation and writing, the play will focus on a moment of desperation by an opportunistic loner presented with a one-in-a-million opportunity to come face to face with the ruling elite. What follows is a pressure-cooker exploration of power, disenfranchisement and pain tolerance...

The run will be accompanied by the return of our FINBOROUGHFORUM, a series of informal discussions and debates on the General Election, after every performance on Sunday and Monday evenings. All events are free to ticketholders for that evening's performance of the new play. FINBOROUGHFORUM events will all be Twitter friendly with live tweets from @FinboroughForum. Using the hashtag #finfor, the speakers will also answer questions posed on Twitter so everyone can be included, no matter where they are in the world.

Writer and Director Chris New trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. As an actor, theatre includes Lingua Franca (Finborough Theatre), Smallholding (Soho Theatre, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, and High Tide Festival), The Pitchfork Disney (Arcola Theatre), Pictures from an Exhibition (Sadler's Wells), Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy Theatre), Edward II, Hay Fever (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Reporter (National Theatre) and Bent (Trafalgar Studios) for which he was nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer and the WhatsOnStage Theatregoers' Choice Awards nomination for London Newcomer of the Year. Film includes the multi-award winning Weekend for which he was named one of The New York Times' 'Faces to Watch' and was also nominated for Best British Newcomer at the BFI London Film Festival. As a writer and director, his work includes the short film Ticking, which premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in April 2013, and the feature film Chicken.

The cast is:

Jumaane Brown
Trained at East 15 Acting School.
Theatre includes Lads (CLS Arts Cafe) and No Hopers (Dogstar).
Film Include Kids in Love, The Theory of Everything and Remainder.

Charlie Hollway
Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Theatre includes The Importance of Being Earnest (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), The Hotel Plays (Grange Hotel, London), New Voices from New York (The Old Vic), Amadeus (Ryan Theatre), Art of Concealment (Jermyn Street Theatre), Les Enfants du Paradis (Arcola Theatre), Hamlet (Greenwich Shakespeare Company, New York) and Biting Point (Theatre503).
Film includes Alexander, Metamorphosis, Burlesque Fairytales and Queen of the Desert.
Television includes Doctors, Misfits, Tittybangbang, I Shouldn't be Alive and Dark Matters.

Emily Houghton
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes Out Of The Cage (Park Theatre and Rose Theatre, Kingston), Price Of Money (Belarus Free Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Ludlow Festival), Angus Thongs and Even More Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Dinnerladies (National Tour), All My Sons (Curve Leicester), The Rape of Lucrece (Shakespeare's Globe), Thunderer (Edinburgh Festival and New Diorama Theatre) and Bangers and Slash (Edinburgh Festival).
Film includes Red Reflections, 48 Hour Film Project, Curtain and Something's Wrong.
Television includes Lewis, Threesome and Doctors.

Tim Pritchett
Productions at the Finborough Theatre includeThe Hospital at the Time of the Revolution.
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes Dead Dog at Dry Cleaners (Pleasance London), Eurydice (Gielgud Theatre), Great Expectations (Arcola Theatre), The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery (Hoxton Hall), The Canterbury Tales, Much Ado About Nothing (Transatlantic Tour), In the Blood (Theatre503 and Arcola Theatre), Cuddle (Arcola Theatre and Southwark Playhouse), Exeter Blitz Project (Bikeshed Theatre, Exeter), Manchester (Soho Theatre), Hedda Gabbler and Three Sisters (RADA Studios), Short and Stark (Southwark Playhouse) and The Samantha Ellis Shorts (Theatre503).
Film includes Tomorrow, Enemy Within, Immortal Game, They Love, Gospel of Thomas, Godard and Others, Furrow, Taking Chances and Fingers.
Television includes Doctors, The Vessel, You Look Stunning Too and Jenny and Vinny Uncut.?

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