A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered cases. From within them, whole worlds 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. Tiny in scale, but expansive in story, it touches on climate change, love and death, travel, and secrets that we carry with us – an overthrown autocrat finds themselves on the run from their own shadow, an astronaut turns their telescope back on earth and back in time.

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

“Weaves a bright, dark magic” -The Scotsman, UK

“A virtuoso display of Trick of the Light’s expertise in small-scale, big vision theatricality.” -The Theatre Times