Box of Tricks invites you to join us for the 2025 PlayMakers Takeover – bringing together Northern writers and theatre-makers to connect, collaborate and create.
All they play in Preston nightclubs is Little Mix and Miley Cyrus. How is Danesha supposed to vibe…
To celebrate our 18th Birthday, Box of Tricks is throwing a party. It’s not every day you turn…
Get ready for a rewind! Following the sell-out success of our Word:Play cycles, Box of Tricks’ Remix reimagines…
Join Box of Tricks for this year’s PlayMakers Takeover bringing together Northern playwrights and theatremakers to connect, collaborate…
Winter is coming. Box of Tricks returns to The Arden with Winter Tales: an anthology of six brand…
The world turns. Dark clouds gather. Chaos is on the horizon. On his fifteenth birthday, Noble transforms into…
Join Box of Tricks for the latest PlayMakers Takeover bringing together Northern playwrights and theatremakers to connect, collaborate…
Not your common-or-garden festive fare, Christmas with the Tricksters is a seasonal anthology of brand new plays with…
Box of Tricks and Sky Studios’ inaugural Screen/Play Award launched to unearth two writers from the North of…
It’s the end of the world. The last night on earth. An asteroid is heading straight for us….
Box of Tricks and Sky Studios’ inaugural Screen/Play Award launched to unearth two writers from the North of…
Box of Tricks returns to HOME for a creative weekend showcasing new plays from our current PlayBox playwrights and connecting with local…
Join Box of Tricks for our first ever day-long PlayMakers Takeover as we bring together Northern playwrights and…
Join Box of Tricks as we raise the roof of our new home live and loud at The…
Through our New Tricks programme, Box of Tricks commissions, develops and produces bold new theatre from the most exciting…
Following its acclaimed 2019 tour and sell-out run at HOME Manchester, David Judge’s “exquisitely theatrical” SPARKPLUG (The Guardian)…
Move over Comet, Rudolph’s coming to town! It’s a Christmas miracle! The Four Horsemen pub is back in…
As Manchester heads into Tier 3 lockdown, local theatre companies Box of Tricks and Take Back are joining…
Box of Tricks returns to HOME for a day-long takeover at Push Festival 2020 showcasing new plays from our current…
It’s the end of the world. The last night on earth. An asteroid is heading straight for us….
Mike and Paul are mates. They drink, they smoke, they crack jokes. They kill time. Spanning half a…
Manchester, 1983. Dave loves Rod Stewart, Joanne and his Ford Capri. He’s all set for a new start. Only Joanne’s…
It’s the grand reopening of Booth and Son’s Fish & Chip Shop. Eric has returned home, over forty…
Box of Tricks launches a day-long takeover of HOME’s PUSH Festival 2018 to showcase new plays from our current…
Present day. Liverpool. All alone, an old man falls in a basement and loses consciousness. World War Two. Norway….
Rose loves her brother Mikey. Mikey loves Rose, Bruce Willis films and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but…
It’s the grand reopening of Booth and Son’s Fish & Chip Shop. Eric has returned home, over forty…
Present day. Liverpool. All alone, an old man falls in a basement and loses consciousness. World War Two. Norway….
Rose loves her brother Mikey. Mikey loves Rose, Bruce Willis films and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but…
A coastline erodes, a house falls into the sea. A mysterious brother and sister arrive looking for answers….
Pete loves football and he loves Gary. But when it comes to telling his teammates at Sons of…
Counter Culture Club is a late-night cross-art adventure in new performance. Smashing the fourth wall and bringing down…
Nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award 2014 Following the critically-acclaimed, sell-out success of previous cycles, Box of Tricks…
A rainy night in Manchester. Colin finally returns home to face up to his past, but wife Helen…
Box of Tricks has been gathering photographs of the city from all across Liverpool. Each night of the…
Box of Tricks and Nu:Write join forces to stage Tales of Two Cities: a transnational theatrical adventure in…
Two of the most exciting voices in new writing create dovetailing pieces themed around head and heart for…
For one week only, at the Arcola’s new-found home, Word:Play 4 will be kick-starting Studio 2 with an…
Daniel is a convicted murderer on Death Row. Alice is his neurotic girlfriend. Charlie is a 15-year-old girl from Reading. Judith,…
For one week only, Box of Tricks returns to Theatre503 with six brand new plays inspired by a…
Adam and his father have never been close. For Adam, Manchester is the sprung dancefloor at the Ritz…
Amid the prefect badges, school blazers and empty B&H packets, a secret lurks that will send shivers down…
Two teenagers sit in a desolate playground as the city tears itself apart. An old tramp waits in…
Six 15-minute plays, from six of the hottest young playwrights, have been specially commissioned, with one simple premise:…
Word:Play is an ambitious new project for exciting new writing. Six 15-minute plays, from six emerging playwrights, have…
An eleven-strong male cast bring David Foley’s gay tragicomedy, a story of love and hate, to the London…
Manchester. A leafy suburb. A street, a stone wall. A young girl sits on the wall, surrounded by…
The cities burn. The people flee. Jim and Robert ‘ghost’ their way through the country manors, waiting for…
Based on his novel The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe’s Frank Pig Says Hello takes you on a journey through…
It’s the start of Ramadan. Jusuf (Joe) is a Bosnian Muslim living in Manchester. He and Rose are…