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Box Clever

Box Clever

By Monsay Whitney
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback : 9781848426948, 56 pages, August 2017

Excerpt

"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. "

Description

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

"Packs a real punch… an all too believable story about society’s underclass today. " —British Theatre Guide

"A work of ferocious honesty and seething anger. " —The Arts Desk

"[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

"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