'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.'

Marnie is stuck in a women's refuge, trying to escape toxic relationship patterns, just wanting to do the best for herself and her daughter. But how do you get out of a rut when everyone you know is a liability?

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.

'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

About the Author
Monsay Whitney is an actor and playwright. Her plays include Box Clever (nabokov and The Marlowe, Canterbury, at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017), and Hand to Mouth (Lyric Hammersmith), chosen by Simon Stephens as part of Theatre503's 'Playwright Presents' scheme.

Reviews

'A work of ferocious honesty and seething anger'

* The Arts Desk *

'Packs a real punch... an all too believable story about society's underclass today'

* British Theatre Guide *

'[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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848426948
Author Monsay Whitney
Format Paperback
Page Count 56
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books