After the critical success of their first national tour in 2013 with Tom Morton-Smith’s In Doggerland, Manchester theatre company Box of Tricks is to premier Ella Carmen Greenhill’s moving and touchingly funny new play Plastic Figurines. The play will tour from April 8th to May 16th and will be performed at the Liverpool Playhouse from April 8th to April 11th.
Rose loves her brother Mikey. Mikey loves Rose, Bruce Willis films and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but he hates change. When their mum is diagnosed with leukaemia, their world is plunged into chaos. Rose returns home to find a very different brother to when she left. Today though is his eighteenth birthday and Rose wants everything to be perfect but life with Mikey isn’t ever that simple.
Inspired by events in Greenhill’s life, Plastic Figurines is a funny and heartfelt new play that explores autism and the relationship between siblings with very different views of the world.
Playwright Ella Carmen Greenhill was a writer-on-attachment with the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and a writer-in-residence with Paines Plough, in collaboration with Channel 4. She has recently been named as one of the Theatre503’s 503Five playwrights and a winner of Coronation Street’s Original Voices scheme. Her last play Made in Britain premiered at The Old Red Lion Theatre in January.
Tickets for Plastic Figurines are available to purchase from the Playhouse Theatre Box office. Tickets are priced at: £10/£12.