SUITCASE SHOW

Suitcase Show is 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 shadow play to wireless projection, from dancing disembodied hands to narratives that crackle from a 70s stereo suitcase.

Tiny in scale, but expansive in story, Suitcase Show 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. The work was developed through a series of showings in unusual site-specific spaces, from a pub to a photography darkroom.

Trick of the Light is renowned for crafting inventive shows and intricate narratives. Just back from Edinburgh Fringe, Suitcase Show reunites multi-award-winning collaborators Hannah Smith, Ralph McCubbin Howell and Tane Upjohn-Beatson.  

“A virtuoso display of Trick of the Light’s small scale, big vision theatricality” – The Theatre Times 

“A masterful weaving of stories…crafty as hell” – Art Murmurs 

Come prepared to be completely enraptured by these absolute masters of theatrical storytelling, arts lovers!

“Few words are capable of capturing the magic this innovative theatre company brings to the stage” – Wellington Regional News

Artistic Credits: 

Writer / Performer: Ralph McCubbin Howell
Director / Performer: Hannah Smith
Sound Design & Composition: Tane Upjohn-Beatson
Production & Technical Design Collaborators: Rachel Marlow & Bradley Gledhill (Filament Eleven 11)