Jack Klaff, Amanda Ryan Star In SHRUNK At The Cock Tavern Theatre May 18-June 12

Mark Shenton and Good Night Out Presents the world premiere of SHRUNK by Charlotte Eilenberg. The show is directed by Julian Birkett, Produced by Mark Shenton, Designed by Kate Guinness. The cast is made up of Jack Klaff, Amanda Ryan and runs 18th May - 12th June (PRESS NIGHT: FRIDAY 21st MAY at 7.30pm

SHRUNK is supported by The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust. Successful psychoanalyst Max Goldman is enjoying a few moments of quiet reflection in his consulting room. He's at the top of his game and has much to feel pleased about - until, that is, his new patient, Celia, turns his life upside down.... This darkly comic two-hander puts analysis on the couch, catapulting its two protagonists into a world of suppressed desires and unsuppressed hysteria.

Playwright Charlotte Eilenberg won The Laurence Olivier Award and The Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright (2003) for her first play The Lucky Ones, which had an extended sell-out run at Hampstead Theatre.

Director Julian Birkett is a BBC TV producer and director, whose credits for television include The Man Who Built Britain, with Hugh Bonneville as Christopher Wren, and The Art of the Garden, with Miriam Margolyes as Gertrude Jekyll.

Producer Mark Shenton is theatre critic of the Sunday Express, blogs daily at www.thestage.co.uk/shenton and tweets at www.twitter.com/shentonstage. This is his producing debut, though he previously originated the Divas at the Donmar season at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998.

Jack Klaff plays Max. He has played a wide range of classical and modern parts in the West End, at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in premier venues throughout Britain and abroad. His most recent stage role was Michael Mansfield, QC in Stockwell (Tricycle Theatre). Other theatre credits include Henry VI, School of Night, As You Like It, (all Royal Shakespeare Company), Othello, Donkey's Years, I'm Not Rappaport (all Bristol Old Vic), Map of the Heart (Shakespeare's Globe) and Insignificance (Donmar Warehouse). Television credits include: Ivanhoe (BBC), Sherlock Holmes (Granada) and Vanity Fair (BBC). Film credits include: Star Wars (20th Century Fox), For Your Eyes Only (Eon Productions) and King David (Universal). Jack has worked extensively in radio and has received 2 Sony Silver Certificates for Radio Acting. He has written and performed 12 solo works which have been performed and broadcast internationally, receiving awards including 2 Fringe Firsts at the Edinburgh Festival.

Amanda Ryan plays Celia. Her most recent stage role was Hermione in Simon Godwin's The Winter's Tale (Headlong Theatre Tour). Other theatre credits include Alice in Patrick Marber's Closer (National Theatre Tour) and Cathy in Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep Tour). Television credits include: Carrie Rogers in Shameless (Channel 4 - series 4, 5 and 6), Verity Wright in Eastenders (BBC) and Holly Forsythe in The Forsythe Saga (Granada - series 1 and 2). Film credits include: Lettice Howard in Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth (Working Title) and Joanna in Metroland (Blue Horizon).

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