Good Night Out Presents SWING May 22- June 12

Good Night Out Presents the first full-length theatrical response to the General Election: SWING. Devised and Directed by Jamie Harper and Dan Muirden, designed by Moi Tran . The show runs 22nd May - 12th June 2010 

"Don't let anyone tell you this time it can't be different. It can." Nick Clegg April 21st, 2010
JMK winner Jamie Harper returns to the c*ckTavern to devise and direct the first full-length play in response to the General Election. SWING takes place on Election Night and will be an immediate reaction to the events of May 6th.

It's Election Night 2010 and the votes are in. But for the Londoners at this house party, the biggest choices of the day have yet to be made... In this devised play, the personal and the political collide in a flurry of wine, desire and honesty. On an evening where our nation's politics are up for grabs, what we believe, what we want and who we love turn out to be more fluid than anyone could have predicted. Which way will it swing?

(on Jamie Harper and Dan Muirden's production of Invisible Storms)
Director Jamie Harper's directing credits include: Beyond the Pale (Southwark Playhouse); A Real Humane Person Who Cares and All That (Arcola); Invisible Storms (Cock Tavern Theatre - Time Out Critics' Choice); Sound Dust (Theatre 503); The Six-Days World (Finborough Theatre); The Things Good Men Do (Lyric Hammersmith); The Vanek Plays (Tristan Bates Theatre); The Infant (Old Red Lion); A Lie of the Mind (BAC); and Left, an improvised play for BBC Radio 4. Jamie is the recipient of the 2005 Northern Ireland Arts Council Tyrone Guthrie Bursary, the 2006 James Menzies-Kitchin Directors' Award, and the 2006 John S. Cohen Bursary for which he was Resident Director at English Touring Theatre and the National Theatre Studio. He is currently Associate Director at the Rose Theatre in Kingston.

(on Jamie Harper's production of Beyond the Pale)

Playwright Dan Muirden's first play The Things Good Men Do was produced at the Old Red Lion in 2007 and at Lyric Hammersmith and was directed by Swing co-director Jamie Harper. In 2009 he worked with Harper again on Invisible Storms at The c*ckTavern (Time Out Critics Choice). In between, he completed an attachment at the National Theatre Studio where he wrote his second play Crash, Burn. On screen, Dan's original drama series Fifth Estate has gone to script with the BBC. He is co-writer of comedy series Staggering which has been developed with Talkback Thames and is currently developing original series with Left Bank Productions and Tiger Aspect. Dan has also written a number of episodes of BBC1's Doctors and a radio play, A Fare to Remember, broadcast on BBC7.

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 (Best Artistic Director - Fringe Report Awards 2010) the theatre runs a bold programme of new writing alongside select revivals. Resident theatre company Good Night Out Presents was formed in in August 2008. Credits include the Time Out Critics' Choice productions of Studies for a Portrait (White Bear and transfers to Oval House and King's Head) and The York Realist (Riverside Studios). Adam begins his first season as Artistic Director at the King's Head Theatre in autumn 2010; Good Night Out Presents will be the resident company at both The c*ckTavern and King's Head Theatres. The c*ckTavern Theatre is currently home to resident company OperaUpClose's sell-out extended run of La Boh?me that will transfer to Soho Theatre in July.

Venue: The c*ckTavern Theatre, 125 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 6JH
Dates: 22nd May - 12th June 2010
Performances: Saturdays at 1pm, Sundays at 1pm and 7pm

Mondays at 7pm (except Monday 24th May at 7.30pm)

Thursday 10th June at 9.15pm

(14 performances only)

Box Office: 08444 771 000 // www.cocktaverntheatre.com

Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions) Limited number of £5 tickets available every night.

Transport: Kilburn Park (Bakerloo Line)

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