The Box

Published on 19 July 2024

The Box is an explosive new Tasmanian play from the powerhouse union of award-winning Palawa artist, Nathan Maynard, and Murri-born, Nipaluna raised artist Rob Braslin and produced by Mudlark Theatre. The Box is a significant First Nations led theatre work and will premiere at the Earl Arts Centre, Launceston, before touring to Burnie and Hobart. The show is presented by Theatre North, Theatre Royal and Burnie Arts, with support from the Strategic Touring Fund, and is a landmark theatre event in Lutruwita.

Straight from his acclaimed production of 37 at Melbourne Theatre Company, Nathan Maynard will direct the World Premiere of The Box featuring Corey Saylor-Brunskill, Nelson Clay, Harrison Collis Oates and Carrie McLean. Set in a fictional housing commission suburb of Bowendale, the story of The Box draws us into the home and family of a single mother Mandy and her two hardened “Bowey boy” sons. This story is a relentlessly real, daringly comic and profoundly moving theatre experience. A complex and compelling family drama, The Box rages at the fragility of our lives, lives balanced on a knife edge, revealing the courage it takes for many to persist and survive, let alone “dream outside the box”.

Burnie Town Hall

31 July to 1 August

www.burniearts.net or call the Box Office on 03 6430 5850.