Manchester-based theatre company Box of Tricks celebrates ten years of new play making by bringing back three acclaimed productions and commissioning three brand new plays.
Following a national tour last year, Plastic Figurines by Ella Carmen Greenhill is transferring to the New Diorama Theatre in London for a four-week run.
After an acclaimed run at the Liverpool Playhouse Studio last year, Narvik by Lizzie Nunnery embarks on a national tour in Spring 2017. Chip Shop Chips heads nationwide in spring / early summer 2017 following its sold-out northern tour earlier this year.
For the 10th anniversary year, the company is also commissioning three playwrights to write brand new plays to be developed through its New Tricks programme.
David Judge (whose debut play Skipping Rope, written on a PlayBox attachment, was a finalist for the Alfred Fagon Award 2015), Siân Owen (whose play This Land recently toured nationally with Pentabus) and Daniel Kanaber (whose play Shiver performed at Watford Playhouse). New plays will be developed with local partner venues The Lowry, the Unity Theatre in Liverpool and Oldham Coliseum.
And Box of Tricks also reignites its PlayBox writer-on-attachment residencies supporting Manchester and North West writers. Box of Tricks is currently identifying three early-career playwrights who will join the company on a nine-month attachment to write a new full-length piece.