A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered cases. From within them, whole worlds will emerge.

Suitcase Show is an eclectic box set of short stories from multi-award-winning company Trick of the Light Theatre (The Bookbinder, Tröll). Dark, spiky and comic, each one is told out of a suitcase.

The tone is mysterious, the staging inventive – from lo-fi light and shadowplay to wireless projection, from a wordless departure lounge dance between two disembodied hands to a narrated story that crackles from an old 70s stereo suitcase. Coming to us straight from a their season in Edinburgh, this captivating performance

by from one of New Zealand’s most magical companies is sure to carry you away!

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

“A masterful weaving of stories…Crafty as hell.” - Art Murmurs

Please note this is a show for adults. If you wish to bring young people to this event, we recommend they are 12 and over.

Sponsored by Grassroots

About the Company
Trick of the Light is an award-winning theatre company from Aotearoa / New Zealand, founded by Hannah Smith and Ralph McCubbin Howell. They are renowned for their engaging, nuanced stories and inventive design. Previous works include The Road That Wasn’t There (Production of the Year – Wellington Theatre Awards 2013; Children’s Event Award – Fringe World, Perth 2016; Best Children’s Event – Adelaide Fringe 2016); Tröll (Outstanding Theatre Award – Fringe Review, Edinburgh, 2019); and The Bookbinder - a solo show which has toured across NZ, Australia, Canada, the UK, USA, and South Africa, from sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe to the attic of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s oldest bookbindery, receiving accolades including Best of the Fringe – NZ Fringe 2014, International Excellence Award – Sydney Fringe Festival 2014, BDO Children’s Theatre Award – Fringe World, Perth 2015.