PlayMakers Takeover 2025

An all-day new play extravaganza celebrating Box of Tricks’ PlayBox playwrights.

Box of Tricks invites you to join us for the 2025 PlayMakers Takeover – bringing together Northern writers and theatre-makers to connect, collaborate and create.  

The PlayMakers Takeover is a highlight in the Box of Tricks calendar. We plan to kick off the New Year in the best way possible – by filling HOME Mcr with local theatremakers and having big chats about the things we’re passionate about. And we want YOU to be part of it! 

The 2025 Takeover will feature our regular drop-in Culture Café, a Blood Beats mixer for LGBTQ+ writers and artists, a PlayMakers Offstage workshop and a showcase of brand spanking new scripts penned by writers on our Accelerate programme.  

So, pick up a pen and shake off those January blues – we’ll save you a seat! 

HOME Mcr | 25 January 2025

10:15 – 11:15 – PlayMakers Culture Café 

11:30 – 13:00 – PlayMakers Offstage: Physical Play Workshop 

14:30 – 15:30 – Blood Beats Social 

16:00– 18:30 – Accelerate Showcase

In this season

Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Culture Café 2025

Sat 25 Jan

Local writers and offstage creatives, join Box of Tricks on Sat 25 Jan to hear all about our PlayMakers Network between events throughout the day.…

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Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Blood Beats Social

Sat 25 Jan

Blood Beats is Box of Tricks’ trans-led, interdisciplinary LGBTQ+ writers’ group. This year they’re holding space for LGBTQ+ writers and artists to network and socialise.…

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Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Offstage: Physical Play Workshop

Sat 25 Jan

Join movement director Aiden Crawford and explore how physical play can help build an ensemble and create a world.

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Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Accelerate Showcase

Sat 25 Jan

Accelerate is Box of Tricks’ new development programme for Northern playwrights aged over 35. Twelve writers have been supported to develop the first draft of…

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