When the senior roller at a Cuban cigar factory declares the workplace a democracy everyone’s work ethic quickly dries up. Workers become more concerned with flamenco, opera, disagreements, revelations and sex. Miguel has lost his love to America, there’s a storm brewing in Havana, and tobacco is the last thing on his mind.

The President Of An Empty room is the first stage offering from Steven Knight, the writer behind multi-award nominated film Dirty Pretty Things.