Whistling Maggie, written by Courttia Newland, in collaboration with Post Office Theatre and Directed by Riggs O’Hara, proved so popular with audiences during a one week try-out last autumn that we had no choice but to bring it back for a longer run.

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 Bane, a high flying politician who’s tipped to be the next Prime Minister. Jeremy Bane 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? What¹s his secret? Does Maggie know something damaging about his past ? Is she about to blow the whistle on him?

Is sleaze about to catch up with Jeremy Bane?!

Oval House Theatre Upstairs
13th June to 1st July 2006, Tuesday - Saturday 8:00pm
PRESS NIGHT THURSDAY 14TH JUNE 8:00PM


Tickets £12 / £6
BOX OFFICE 020 7582 7680 bookings@ovalhouse.com
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.
Further information: www.ovalhouse.com

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 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. Whistling Maggie cast includes Carol Moses, Ronald Markham, Dominik Golding, Danniel Booth, Leon Barr and Michael Kofi.