nabokov and the Bush Theatre
in association with Watford Palace Theatre and Mercury Theatre Colchester
2nd May 1997. An historic victory. The Tories, 18 years in power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge.
Tory MP Robert prepares to attend the count. With defeat looming large, he fears becoming a forgotten man while his wife Marie counts the cost of her own sacrifice to politics. Lib Dem footsoldier Ian is no hero but party-crasher Sarah is determined to make him one. Best mates Jake and Will wake up to a new world order and try to memorise the cabinet before their politics A Level class. Jake dreams of Number 10. Will dreams of Jake.
A smouldering new play from one of Britain's most exciting young writers about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future.
2nd May 1997 on Tour
20 – 21 Oct Watford Palace Theatre
22 – 24 Oct The Mercury Theatre, Colchester
27 – 31 Oct The Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester
CLICK HERE to view our 2nd May 1997 trailer.
Please note that the performance contains smoking, nudity and some bad language.
Co-founder and artistic director of nabokov and Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre.
Credits as Director include: Sea Wall (Bush Theatre); Is Everyone Ok? (Latitude Festival and National Tour, nabokov); House of Agnes (Oval House, Paines Plough); The Dirt Under The Carpet (Oran Mor Glasgow & Shunt Vaults London, Paines Plough); Crazy Love by Che Walker (Oran Mor Glasgow & Shunt Vaults London, Paines Plough); Terre Haute (59E59, New York/West End / National Tour / Assembly Rooms Edinburgh, nabokov); My Little Heart Dropped In Coffee, Babies (Paines Plough/Young Vic Wild Lunch) and Camarilla (Old Red Lion London/Edinburgh Festival Fringe, nabokov).
Credits as Associate Director include: Long Time Dead (Drum Theatre Plymouth, Paines Plough), After The End (New York/Moscow/National Tour, Paines Plough) and Nikolina (National Tour, nabokov). He was Trainee Associate Director of Paines Plough and Watford Palace Theatre.
He was the first recipient of the Genesis Director's Award from the Young Vic and is a member of Old Vic New Voices. George trained on the National Theatre Studio Director's Course and at The Maly Theatre, St Petersburg with the Young Vic.
Hannah trained in theatre design at Nottingham Trent University and Central School of Speech and Drama. She was a winner of the 2005 Linbury Biennial Prize for stage design.
Theatre designs include: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (The Globe); THYESTES (Arcola, London); UNDER MILK WOOD (Northampton Theatre Royal); NOCTURNAL (The Gate, London); BILLY WONDERFUL (Liverpool Everyman); HORTENSIA AND THE MUSEUM OF DREAMS (Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA); THE SNOW QUEEN (West Yorkshire Playhouse); PROPER CLEVER (Liverpool Playhouse); Pequenas Delicias (Requardt & Company); TORN (Arcola, London); ROADKILL CAFE (Requardt & Company, Centro Coreografico de Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal / Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice / The Place). House Of Agnes (Paines Plough); Breakfast With Mugabe (Theatre Royal Bath); The Cracks In My Skin and WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Manchester Royal Exchange); OTHELLO (Salisbury Playhouse); AS YOU LIKE IT and WE THAT ARE LEFT (Watford Palace Theatre); BIG LOVE (The Gate, London); TERRE HAUTE (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh / Trafalgar Studios / UK Tour / 59E59, New York); THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Bristol Old Vic); JAMMY DODGERS (Requardt & Company, The Place / Royal Opera House 2 / INT Tour); DEATH OF A SALESMAN, WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, BLUE/ORANGE, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, I JUST STOPPED BY TO SEE THE MAN, TWO and FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE (Bolton Octagon).
Shows include:
Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/ Royal Exchange) Origins (Pentabus) Terminus (Abbey & Tour) Once on this Island (Birmingham/Nottingham/Hackney) After Dido (English National Opera) Macbeth (Royal Exchange Manchester) Harvest (UK Tour) Amazonia, Ghosts, The Member of the Wedding & Festa! (Young Vic) Oedipus Rex (Royal Festival Hall) Oxford Street & Kebab (Royal Court) Il Trittico (Opera Zuid) Testing The Echo (Out Of Joint) Falstaff (Grange Park Opera) Blithe Spirit & Black Comedy (Watermill) Drowning On Dry Land (Salisbury Playhouse) Overspill, HOTBOI & Tape (Soho Theatre) Melody & In the Bag (Traverse) Mother Courage (Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour) Into the Woods, Macbeth & Way Up Stream (Derby Playhouse) The Bodies (Live Theatre) The Morris (Liverpool Everyman) Bread & Butter (Tricycle) Canterville Ghost (Peacock) Awakening & Another America (Sadler's Wells).
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Theatre includes Key To A Quiet Life (Dead Earnest Theatre); Sweet Charity (Aquinas Theatre); Junk (A2); Breezeblock Park (Priestnall Production).
Training at Manchester School of Acting.
TV includes Doctors, Literacy Awareness.
Film includes Kiss, Cuddle, Torture.
London theatre includes: The Un Inspector, Playing With Fire, The Winter's Tale (National Theatre); War and Peace, Passage to India (Shared Experience); A Servant To Two Masters, Pericles, Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, The Devils, The Time of Your Life (RSC); Hamlet, The Antipodes (Shakespeare's Globe); Leaving, The Skin Game, Dr Knock, Uncle Vanya (Orange Tree Theatre); The Robbers (The Gate); The Tower (Almeida); Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, The Crucible (Young Vic); and several plays in the West End.
TV includes: The Tudors, The South Bank Show on Hardy, Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley, The Genius of Mozart, Island at War, Goodnight Mr Tom, Silent Witness, Inspector Morse, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Holby City Casualty, The Bill, Down to Earth, Taggart, Buddha of Suburbia, Prime Suspect, Red Dwarf, Yes Prime Minister, A Very Peculiar Practise, Dr Who, A Very British Coup, Jewel in the Crown.
Film includes: Clash of the Titans, The Kid, Miss Potter, The Edge Of Love, The Woodlanders, The Curse Of The Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria.
He also writes and directs. His adaptation of "Adam Bede" won a Time Out Award.
Jamie plays Danny
Training: Arts Ed School Of Acting
Theatre includes: THE KITCHEN SINK by Tom Wells (Hull Truck Theatre), 66 BOOKS (Bush Theatre), PUSHING UP POPPIES by Kieran Lynn (Theatre 503), BLANDED by Frazer Flintham (Bush Theatre), 2ND MAY 1997 by Jack Thorne (Bush Theatre/Royal Exchange Manchester), THE ENGLISH GAME by Richard Bean (Headlong), THE CONSERVATORY by Mark Dooley (Old Red Lion Theatre).
Film includes: Territory (50 West Productions)
TV includes: The Promise (Channel 4/Daybreak Pictures), A Touch Of Frost (ITV), Doctors (BBC), The Bill (ITV)
Short Film includes: Own Worst Enemy (Grosvenor Television), The Coward (Curzon, Soho).
Theatre for the Bush includes: 2nd May 1997.
Other theatre includes: Rope (Almedia and Sonia
Friedman); Roaring Trade (Soho Theatre); Twelfth
Night (Sprite Productions); Crazy Love (Paines
Plough); Is Everyone OK? (Latitude Festival).
Television includes: Doctors.
Film includes: The Reward.
Phoebe is the Co-Artistic Director of DryWrite.
Theatre includes Ivanov (Wyndhams Theatre); The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse); Snowbound (Trafalgar Studios, London); Hamlet (The Factory); I Like Mine with a Kiss (The Bush); The Safari Party (New Vic Theatre, Stoke); Hoxton Story (The Red Room); The Life of Galileo, The Crucible, Racing Demon, Absence of War and Murmuring Judges (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Ballroom (Riverside Stuidos and tour); The Importance Of Being Earnest (The Royal Theatre, Northampton); When The Wind Blows (The Southwark Playhouse); Forty Years On, Northanger Abbey (The Northcott Theatre, Exeter); Sugar Dollies (The Gate Theatre).
TV includes Waking The Dead, Silent Witness, Doctors, Poirot, Carrie and Barrie, Fist of Fun, Paul Merton: Does China Exist?, Casualty, Roughnecks, Knowing Me Knowing You, Chandler and Co., Men Behaving Badly, Wycliffe, Firm Friends, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Coronation Street.
Hugh Skinner returns to the Bush Theatre, where he previously appeared in 2 May 1997 and Suddenlossofdignity.com. His other theatre work includes The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre), Angry Young Man (Trafalgar Studios), The Enchantment (National Theatre), Senora Carrar’s Rifles (Young Vic), and ); French Without Tears (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford). Television credits include Any Human Heart, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Bonkers; and for film, Day of the Dead.
