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 8^th to May 16^th and will be performed at the Liverpool Playhouse from April 8^th to April 11^th.

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.