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The President of an Empty Room

The President of an Empty Room - NHB Modern Plays

Paperback (24 Jun 2005)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

About the Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN: 9781854598981
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 822.914
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 96
Weight: 99g
Height: 200mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 10mm