Good Night Out Presents SHRUNK at The Cock Tavern Theatre

Good Night Out Presents the world premiere of SHRUNK by Charlotte Eilenberg at The c*ckTavern Theatre 18th May - 12th June (PRESS NIGHT: FRIDAY 21st MAY at 7.30pm).

Director: Julian Birkett, Producer: Mark Shenton

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.

"A remarkable dramatic debut - rich, painful... beautifully drawn characters"

Charles Spencer DAILY TELEGRAPH (on The Lucky Ones)

It is directed by BBC TV producer and director, Julian Birkett, 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.

Mark Shenton, theatre critic of the Sunday Express and chairman of the Critics' Circle's drama section, is making his debut as Producer for The c*ckTavern Theatre with this production.

"Evocative. Edgy. Irresistible... We can't wait to see what they do next" TIME OUT

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 select revivals. It is currently home to resident company OperaUpClose's sell-out run of La Boh?me that has just been extended for a fourth month.
"A tiny North London powerhouse" THE STAGE

Adam Spreadbury-Maher ("Best Artistic Director" - Fringe Report Awards 2010) formed theatre company Good Night Out Presents in August 2008, they are the resident theatre 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).

Casting is still to be announced.

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