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Box Clever

  • Monsay Whitney
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 1F, 1M or F
  • ISBN: 9781848426948

"Ever had the feeling you’re going round in one big circle? It’s like I can’t stop recycling my ex-boyfriends. Ten years back and forth between a trio of arseholes and nothing to show for it except a baby, an Argos ring and a beat-up nose."

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Marnie is stuck in a women's refuge, trying to escape toxic relationship patterns, just wanting to do the best for herself and her daughter. But how do you get out of a rut when everyone you know is a liability?

Box Clever is a moving, truthful and darkly comic play, which premiered at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a production by nabokov and The Marlowe, Canterbury, in Paines Plough's pop-up theatre, Roundabout.

REVIEWS:

"A work of ferocious honesty and seething anger."

 The Arts Desk

"Packs a real punch… an all too believable story about society's underclass today."

 British Theatre Guide

"[Has] the compassionate anger of a Ken Loach film… a superb piece of writing, bubbling with bitterness yet bursting with heart, simultaneously funny and infuriating."

 The Stage

Premiere Production: nabokov & The Marlowe, Canterbury, at Edinburgh Fringe 2017.
  • Casting: 1F, 1M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

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Marnie is stuck in a women's refuge, trying to escape toxic relationship patterns, just wanting to do the best for herself and her daughter. But how do you get out of a rut when everyone you know is a liability?

Box Clever is a moving, truthful and darkly comic play, which premiered at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a production by nabokov and The Marlowe, Canterbury, in Paines Plough's pop-up theatre, Roundabout.

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