Exploring the world of Joe McCarthy, the beat generation, music after Miles Davis and John Coltrane, the storylines weave around a lone dancer attracted to a black trumpet player, the relationship between a staff member of the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) and a demobbed GI, blackmail and a drugs raid. Developed in a ten-day workshop in Newcastle in 2004, the project will undertake a further 2-week development period in Manchester at Chetham's School of Music. Composer Tim Sutton and director Vernon Mound have previously collaborated on jazz projects The Late Sleepers and Such Sweet Thunder. Clare Russ is the Artistic Director of the Clare Russ Ensemble and writer Jane Bodie teaches on the Royal Court Young Writer's Scheme and has a new play opening at Hampstead Theatre in May 2005.

The Company                                           

Dominiqu Ambrose, Pippa Andre, Lee Askew, Aretha Ayeh, Ross Barnes, James Benn, Lauren Bonner, Elise Bragard, Rebecca Cutting, Alex Dawson, Grace Durham, Scott Ellis, Cordelia Farnworth, Phoebe Fildes, Louise Geater, Henty Gilbert, Gemma Giubarelli, Rachel Grundy, Richard Hale, Lorna Harris, Helen Kelly, Beth Lynch, Catriona MacKenzie-Smit, Naomi Martin, Rachel McDermott, Philip Norton, Nicky Parks, Jasmine Quinlan-Gardner, Jessica Robinson, Eloise Secker, Jos Slovick, Charlotte Taft, Jonathan Vickers, Toby Wilson, Jack Woodhead.

Pastoral Staff and Arrangements

Head Chaperone: Paul Byrne

Chaperones: Ian Lewis

Accommodation: Chetham's School of Music, Manchester

Workshop Dates: Friday 5th - Wednesday 17th August