Previews begin For David Caudle's THE COMMON SWALLOW

Previews begin for David Caudle's The Common Swallow starring Annie Golden. Annie Golden was discovered on the Bowery fronting a rock band and cast by Milos Forman as Jeannie in Hair, the 1978 film. She just finished creating a new musical for its NY off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons called The Shaggs. On Broadway and off she was seen in Xanadu and created the role of Georgie Bukatinsky in The Full Monty; Sondheim's original Squeaky Fromme in Assassins, the off-Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Jerry Zaks; Ah! Wilderness with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards; On the Town; Little Shop of Horrors as Audrey. Films: I Love You, Phillip Morris, Adventures of Power, Twelve Monkeys, Baby Boom, Brooklyn Rules, The Pebble and the Penguin. On the small screen: LAW & ORDER SVU; LAW & ORDER; CHEERS; MIAMI VICE; THIRD WATCH

P+H Productions in association with Provincetown Counter Productions will present the World Premiere production of David Caudle's The Common Swallow in Provincetown this September in the newly restored Town Hall. Previews begin today, with an official press opening to be announced. Performances will continue for two weeks. PCP Artistic Director, Susan Grilli, will direct a cast that will include Golden, Sean Maddox, Angela C. Howell and Ethan Paulini. Tickets will go on sale in August. Full cast and creative team will be announced shortly.

In The Common Swallow, a big city businesswoman returns to her childhood home in America's heartland. In her attempts to solve her families issues she discovers that you can never fully come back to the past, no matter where or how simply it may have started. Family values, struggles with growth and facing the ever-changing trials of life all root this Midwestern dramatic comedy that reminds us what is most important.

Provincetown will mark the next step, and first official full production, on a journey that will see The Common Swallow open in a commercial New York City run in 2012. The Common Swallow has previously been developed in the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group and workshopped as part of the HOWL! Festival at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre. It also received a workshop reading in February of 2011 at Cape Rep Theatre as part of the Winter Series. Details of the New York run will be announced at a later date.