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President of an Empty Room, The

  • Steven Knight
  • Full Length Play, Drama
  • 6M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9781854598981

Voodoo, heroin and tobacco in a Cuban cigar factory, from the award-winning screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Voodoo, heroin and tobacco in a Cuban cigar factory, from the award-winning screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things.

Amid the vibrant, spirited community of a Cuban cigar factory, the senior roller proclaims a democracy and work goes to hell. There's Flamenco dancing, bursts of opera, quarrels, reconciliations, revelations and a bungled sexual encounter; but Miguel has lost his sweetheart to America, there's a storm in Havana, and tobacco is the last thing on his mind.

Steven Knight's play The President of an Empty Room was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in 2005.

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"Natural, humorous and vibrant."

 Independent on Sunday

Premiere Production: National Theatre, London, 2005.
  • Casting: 6M, 6F

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Voodoo, heroin and tobacco in a Cuban cigar factory, from the award-winning screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things.

Amid the vibrant, spirited community of a Cuban cigar factory, the senior roller proclaims a democracy and work goes to hell. There's Flamenco dancing, bursts of opera, quarrels, reconciliations, revelations and a bungled sexual encounter; but Miguel has lost his sweetheart to America, there's a storm in Havana, and tobacco is the last thing on his mind.

Steven Knight's play The President of an Empty Room was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in 2005.

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