BOX CLEVER

by Monsay Whitney

Director Stef O’Driscoll

Cast Redd Lily Roche

and

KILLYMUCK

by Kat Woods

Director Caitriona Shoobridge

Cast Aoife Lennon 

Designer Minglu Wang

Sound designer Benjamin Grant

Lighting designer Joe Price

Associate Lighting Designer Gareth Weaver

Movement Director Louise Kempton

Puppetry Consultant Hattie Thomas

Vocal Coach Josh Hunter

Production Manager Zara Janmohamed

Stage Manager Micaëla Corcoran

Rehearsal and production photography Craig Sugden

At The Bunker Theatre 26 March - 13 April 2019

We are not all born equal. If you're born into a benefits or working class family, you have less, less money, less support, less respect and more poignantly, less opportunity. These two plays explore the politcial cause and effect of what being born with less means. Killymuck gives an insight into how growing up on a council estate effects the present and informs the future. Boxclever confronts us with the repercussions of systemic failure in politics to care about the benefits and working class from the offset. Written with humour, care and urgency, this double bill of one woman shows put the female benefits and working class voices front and centre. 

KILLYMUCK

Written By Kat Woods

Directed by Caitriona Shoobridge

Inspired by real events, Killymuck is a housing estate built on a paupers graveyard in 1970s Ireland. Niamh navigates life through the parameters of growing up, with the trials and tribulations of being a kid from the benefit class system. Lack of opportunity, educational barriers, impoverishment, addiction and depression are the norms as the struggle to escape the underclass stereotype becomes a priority. From school trips organised as cross-community excursions to unite a fractured post troubles town, to finding the humour within an estate crippled with misfortune.

BOX CLEVER

Written by Monsay Whitney

Directed by Stef O’Driscoll. 

“Ever get the feeling you’re going round in one big circle? Ten years. Back and forth between a trio of arseholes and nothing to show for it except a baby, an Argos ring and a busted nose. At the refuge they call that a pattern.”

Moving, truthful and darkly comic, Box Clever is about about one woman’s experience of a refuge and a Mother’s commitment to do the best for her daughter.

The production is kindly supported by the Arts Council and the Carne Trust

★★★★★ A Younger Theatre

Performance and direction bring to life the already impressive words of Woods and Whitney. Both actors skilfully and deftly embody a whole host of different characters, invoking many laugh-out-loud moments amidst some very difficult material.

★★★★★ From Page to Stage

With confident, faultless performances from the two actresses, Box Clever and Killymuck are essential and painfully realistic plays that must be seen, and are sure to stay with you for a long, long time.

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