25 Nov 05

Post Office Theatre present the UK premiere of WHISTLING MAGGIE. By Courttia Newland

Maggie Vaughan is the toughest political analyst of her time. Her successful show Face to Face is respected internationally.  She is about to interview Jeremy Bain, a high flying politician who's tipped to be the next Prime Minister.  Jeremy Bain has known Maggie since she was a little girl, in fact her mother used to be his housekeeper. So why as the show is about to start does he storm out?
 
What is he frightened of?
Does Maggie know something damaging about his past ?
What's his secret?
Is she about to blow the whistle on him?
 
Is sleaze about to catch up with Jeremy Bain?!

BUY TICKETS
£12.00 / Concessions: £6.00

Dates: Tuesday to Saturday, Tuesday 29th November 2005 - Saturday 3rd December 2005 8.00PM

Venue: Upstairs the Oval House

Production Company:  Post Office Theatre

Address:  52-54 Kennington Oval, London, SE11 5SW

Transport: Oval Tube (one-minute walk Northern Line)

Access: Induction Loop; Upstairs Theatre does not have wheelchair access. Car park for disabled visitors, on-street parking nearby

Café: Open theatre nights for World Fusion food, Cocktails, wines, beers and coffees

Website:    http://www.ovalhouse.com

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Courttia Newland  is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Scholar, Society Within, and Snakeskin. He has contributed to the anthologies Disco 2000, New Writers 8, Afrobeat and The Time Out Book of London Short-Stories. He is the Editor of an anthology of new black writing in Britain, IC3, and of Tell Tales Vol 1. Courttia lives in West London and is an RLF project fellow at Birkbeck College. You can visit his website on: www.myvillage.co.uk/urbanfactor .

The Post Office Theatre Company
The Post Office Theatre Company was born in 1995 when Riggs O'Hara, an experienced theatre director with successful Edinburgh Festival productions, amongst others, wanted a permanent space for his theatre group.

Taking an old GPO sorting office, he created an open performance area with gallery above. Having a fixed venue meant he could also realise his ambition of bringing a permanent writer on board, rather than continuing to create pieces through improvisation. Luckily, the writer who came along was Courttia Newland, already an acclaimed novelist.