Our version of Dickens’ Ghost Story of Christmas blends lively action, music, audience participation and text accuracy. As Scrooge, hard and sharp as flint, is made to face his past, present and potential future by three contrasting supernatural powers, his long-suppressed laughter and goodness surface to thaw the ice in his heart.

The darkness and danger of Shakespeare’s vision of early medieval Scotland are brought vividly and terrifyingly to life as Macbeth’s slaughter of Duncan sets him on the path to destruction. Fight scenes and murders are intense, music and lighting heighten both the mood and emotional torment, while the combination of faithfulness to Shakespeare’s text combining with contemporary dialogue and audience interaction adds clarity and injects excitement.

Box Clever Youth Theatre is a chance to create theatre the Box Clever way, using your imagination, creativity and teamwork. There are no costumes, no props and no scripts: just you and other young people who share your passion for making theatre.

A highly entertaining play delivered with enthusiasm and energy, focuses on encouraging young people to take responsibility for their personal safety on their way to school, whether on foot, bicycle or public transport, by allowing them to empathise with recognisable characters and to become fully engaged in the action.

REHEARSALS IN RESIDENCE 

The anatomy of creativity. Students witness and participate in professional creativity in progress in their own schools.

WORKBOX

WORKBOX provides a range of opportunities to help young people gain work experience, develop their skills and progress professionally.

Box Clever’s strand of public performances. Join us for a medley of live performances, Q&A sessions, and great company!

An urban ghost story.

In this gripping and moving solo performance, a young nineteen-year old is locked out of his home after an argument with his mother and faced with the need to discover who he is and the elements, among them family and love, that make him. In the process he takes the audience on a spell-binding and unpredictable voyage of discovery from bravado to vulnerability and from humour to heartbreak.

Box Clever’s strand of public performances. Join us for a medley of live performances, Q&A sessions, and great company!

The raw vulnerability of first love and the awkward, messy realities of teenage intimacy, told through fractured couplets and performances that resonate long after the final moment.

The anatomy of creativity.

Students witness and participate in professional creativity in progress in their own schools.

Nurturing young writers.

Inspiring new writing.

Young people doing it for themselves.