Suitcase Show

From the makers of The Bookbinder comes an eclectic box set of short stories. Dark, spiky, and comic, each one is told out of a suitcase.

The staging is inventive, from lo-fi shadowplay to wireless projection, from dancing disembodied hands to narratives that crackle from a 70s stereo suitcase. Tiny in scale, but expansive in story, it touches on climate change, love and death, travel, and secrets that we carry with us – an overthrown autocrat finds themselves on the run from their own shadow, an astronaut turns their telescope back on earth and back in time.

Trick of the Light is renowned for crafting inventive shows and intricate narratives. Suitcase Show reunites multi-award-winning collaborators Hannah Smith, Ralph McCubbin Howell, Tane Upjohn-Beatson, Rachel Marlow and Bradley Gledhill (Filament 11 Eleven).

Director Hannah Smith

Writer Ralph McCubbin Howell

Performers Ralph McCubbin Howell Hannah Smith

with Anya Tate-Manning Richard Falkner

Sound Design and Composition Tane Upjohn Beatson

with additional composition by Robyn Bryant

Production and Technical Design Brad Gledhill & Rachel Marlow (Filament Eleven 11)

Videography Dean Hewison

Trick of the Light is an award-winning theatre company from Aotearoa / New Zealand founded by Hannah Smith & Ralph McCubbin Howell. Their works include The Road That Wasn’t There (Outstanding New NZ Play, Most Promising Director and Production of the Year – Wellington Theatre Awards 2013), The Bookbinder (Best of the Fringe – NZ Fringe 2014, International Excellence Award –Sydney Fringe Festival 2014), and Tröll (Outstanding Theatre Award – Fringe Review, Edinburgh, 2019, Children’s and West Arts Editor Weekly Award – Fringe World, Perth, 2019).

• Photo: Rebekah de Roo

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