THE LONG TRICK

17 February - 5 March 2017

Kelsey. Teenager. Cornish born. Timid lover of anarchic music. Kelsey lives in a converted fishing boat moored on the Helford River in Cornwall. She is proud daughter to Tristan of Helford - the local legend who makes a living robbing all the nearby second homes. When Gale walks into their lives Kelsey wakes up to who she really is. The outside world encroaches and a delicate balance is knocked sideways in Tristan's precarious world.

Told with narrative poetry, dialogue and song, The Long Trick is about identity, home and what happens when ideas go beyond our control.

Directed by Nel Crouch and produced in association with Bucket Club.

Development support from Pentabus Theatre and Bristol Old Vic.

Cast: Martha Seignior, Darcy Vanhinsburgh, Jessica Murrain
Designer: Rebecca Wood
Lighting Designer & Stage Manager: Joe Price
Sound Designer: Aaron May
Vocal Arrangements: Claire Ingleheart

Made possible thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 

“An intelligent and meticulously delivered protest-play” ★★★★ - Epigram

“Simultaneously ‘very now’ and perennially relevant” ★★★★ - Breaking the Forth Wall

'Kirkbride’s play addresses the issue of gentrification and social alienation with subtlety, and avoids oversimplifying the divides that exist between us...an intelligently written and cleverly produced show worth seeing.' - A Younger Theatre

“A cleverly constructed play with a very satisfying twist in its tail” - Stage Talk Magazine