PlayMakers Takeover

Join Box of Tricks for the latest PlayMakers Takeover bringing together Northern playwrights and theatremakers to connect, collaborate and create. Brace yourself for the thrill of the new: a jam-packed day of creative conversations, insightful workshops, impassioned panel discussions and our first ever BoxFresh showcase of new plays.

In this season

PlayMakers Takeover: The Space Around and Between by Saphena Aziz

It's Lola's 21st Birthday. Her family gathers. Secrets uncovered. Memories replayed. Love explored. A room locked. Maybe forgiveness.  How do you live in spite of…

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PlayMakers Takeover: Brain Play by Lekhani Chirwa

Nameya struggles with her mental health, she has experienced trauma and is trying to heal. She wants to understand her brain and begins working with therapist…

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PlayMakers Takeover: Naz: Sinful Perverts, Sexual Deviants, and Products of the Godless West by Mohammed Barber

At the height of the AIDS epidemic a group of four people band together to create the first South Asian gay night club in London.…

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PlayMakers Takeover: Neverland by Adam James

Neverland is a play about growing up, being silly, and those strange little spaces that allow us to find ourselves... if we give them a…

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Sound Design Workshop with Lee Affen

Join us for a workshop with Box of Tricks’ Associate Sound Designer Lee Affen.

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PlayMakers Culture Café

Sat 20 Jan 10.15am - 4pm

Local writers and offstage creatives, join Box of Tricks on Sat 20 Jan to hear all about our PlayMakers Network between events throughout the day.…

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