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Marnie is stuck in a women’s refuge, trying to escape toxic relationship patterns, just wanting to do the best for herself and her daughter. But how do you get out of a rut when everyone you know is a liability?
Box Clever is a moving, truthful and darkly comic play, which premiered at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a production by nabokov and The Marlowe, Canterbury, in Paines Plough’s pop-up theatre, Roundabout.
‘Monsay Whitney is a writer of ferocious honesty, rare imagination and extraordinary humanity. She has the potential to become a startling and significant figure in British Theatre’ Simon Stephens
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Monsay Whitney
Monsay Whitney grew up in North London and studied at local comprehensive schools. She graduated from St Mary’s University in 2009 with a degree in Drama and Performance. In 2007, she embarked on an acting career when she landed the role of Marie in Yard Gal, and she took up writing in 2012, after taking part in the Lyric Young Writers class. As well as being developed and shown by and at the Lyric Hammersmith, her play Hand to Mouth was chosen by Simon Stephens as part of Theatre503’s ‘Playwright Presents’ scheme. She is Playwright Associate Artist for nabokov.
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