Casting has been announced for the critically acclaimed, award nominated The Shatter Box by James Lewis, produced by Proforça Theatre, which returns to the Lion & Unicorn Theatre from 3-14 September.

The Shatterbox is a dystopian, cat-and-mouse tango of interrogation, confession, staying alive and lying through your teeth from Proforça Theatre, the in-house company at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre.

Directed by Lion & Unicorn Theatre Artistic Director David Brady, the cast features returning Proforça Theatre Associate Artists Fred Wardale as Knight, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain as Reina, Lauren Ferdinand as Bishop, Nick Hardy as Castle and Melissa Phillips as King.

Noun. shatterbox (plural shatterboxes)

A device for mechanically pulverizing a sample of material, used by scientists.

A man wakes up confined to a cage in a clandestine facility.

The cage will only open when he tells the truth.

The only thing that will save his life is a desperate act of compliance.

A woman is assigned to a cage in a clandestine facility.

The cage will only open when she uncovers the truth.

The only thing that will save her life is the ultimate act of defiance.

The only other problem is that neither of them knows quite what the truth is, and neither of them knows quite how far each of them will go to discover it before time runs out...

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