Box Clever (NHB Modern Plays)

Monsay Whitney

Summary

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.
'Monsay Whitney is a writer of ferocious honesty, rare imagination and extraordinary humanity. She has the potential to become a startling and significant figure in British Theatre' Simon Stephens

Available since: 08/22/2017.

Print length: 64 pages.

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