Good Night Out Postpones HOTEL SORRENTO Until 2/20/2010

Good Night Out postpones The UK Premiere of the Award Winning HOTEL SORRENTO By HAnnie Rayson, intended to run 26th January - 20th February 2010. It will now open Feb 20, 2010.

Buried feelings of rivalry, loss and betrayal resurface when three sisters are reunited after ten years apart. Brought together in the sleepy Australian seaside town of Sorrento they grew up in, they are forced into self-examination when one of them publishes a novel drawn upon autobiography and the family's past.

Celebrated writer Meg is visiting from England where her novel has just been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. High-flying advertising executive Pippa is in Australia on a business trip from New York. Hilary never left Sorrento; she has stayed with their father since their mother died. Exploring Australian national identity and culture, HOTEL SORRENTO is a story about fractured family loyalty and the tensions between those who've left and those who stay behind.
"A classic in Australian drama" THE AGE

HOTEL SORRENTO won the Australian Writers Guild Award, NSW Premier's Literary Award and Green Room Award for Best Play (1990). It is extensively performed in Australia and studied on high school and university syllabuses. A film adaptation starring Joan Plowright was nominated for ten Australian Film Institute Awards in 1995.

"A powerful Australian play that begins as a comedy about national identity and develops into

a familial drama of great poignancy and reverberation" THE AUSTRALIAN
One of Australia's most significant playwrights HAnnie Rayson studied at Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts. Hannie has been awarded two Australian Writers' Guild Awards; four Helpmann Awards; two NSW Premier's Literary Awards; a Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Age Performing Arts Award. Her plays include: Please Return to Sender; Mary; Leave It Till Monday; Room to Move; Falling From Grace; Competitive Tenderness; Life After George (first play ever nominated for the Miles Franklin Award); Inheritance; Two Brothers and The Swimming Club. She also wrote Scenes from a Separation with Andrew Bovell. In 2006 she was nominated for the Melbourne Prize for Literature (a prize for an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life).

"Lovingly revived by Adam Spreadbury-Maher" Michael Billington, GUARDIAN **** (The York Realist)

Director Adam Spreadbury-Maher is Artistic Director of The c*ckTavern Theatre and resident company Good Night Out Presents. He won an Australia Critics' Circle Award (2004) for his production of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing. Adam has directed at New End; Arcola; Oval House; White Bear and Etcetera Theatres. Recent credits include: revivals by Stephen Fry and Nick Ward (both at The c*ckTavern Theatre); The Ides of March (Time Out ****); Studies For A Portrait (Time Out Critics' Choice) and The York Realist (Time Out Critics' Choice).

The c*ckTavern Theatre has firmly established itself at the forefront of the London Fringe by winning the prestigious Dan Crawford Pub Theatre Award at the Peter Brook Empty Space Awards. Formed in January 2009, under the artistic leadership of Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the theatre runs a bold programme of new writing alongside crucial revivals.
"A blossoming pub theatre" Matt Wolf, GUARDIAN

Theatre company Good Night Out Presents formed in August 2008. They are the resident company at The c*ckTavern Theatre. Credits include the Time Out Critics' Choice productions of Studies For A Portrait (White Bear and transfer to the main stage at Oval House) and The York Realist (Riverside Studios).

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