A LeKoa production

30 January - 01 February 2003

Contact Theatre, Manchester

Written, directed, and produced by Chris Wright.

Why can’t people just say how it is? They’re so scared of being misunderstood that they lie to avoid it.

Meet Cassius, Kate, Will and Liz. They’re all good friends. But someone is missing. Jack. Having died suddenly, his body is now lying at rest in the city art gallery. Without him the group begin to fall apart, revealing the source of their deepest fears: the secrets and lies that make up their lives.

Featuring ordinary people in an extraordinary situation, black box is an emotionally electric tale of love, loss, guilt, and forgiveness. Like a mirror held up to the face of its audience, black box offers an uncompromising reflection that begs the question: what do we really know about each other?

Set in the city art gallery and framed by four works of modern art, black box also questions the nature of art, the increasingly blurred boundaries between what is and what isn’t acceptable human behaviour and the theatrical tendency and compelling complexity of our everyday lives.

Written and directed by Christopher Wright, one of Manchester’s leading independent directors, black box is the first production by LeKoa, a theatre collaborative committed to writing and producing new plays in and around the North West region.

I wrote, directed, and produced Black Box on behalf of LeKoa.