It’s all going wrong for Morry. The credit crunch is snapping at his heels, his Dad’s in a hospice losing his mind, his wife can’t cook and wants to talk about babies when he should be concentrating on work dead-lines, his interfering Aunt Sadie has arranged for him to go the ballet (who goes to the ballet?), his newly unemployed friend Freddie is a terrifying example of what happens when your job suddenly disappears, and he keeps forgetting to take his tablets.

But then Suzette enters his life, an exotic, unreachable figure of fantasy. Too beautiful to talk to, but with some indefinable quality that seems to go beyond mere beauty.

Tonight he will talk to her. He has to. You only get one chance in life.

There’s just one problem. She’s dead.

“It would seem cube have another hit on their hands”
- The West Briton on The Uninvited

“This is surely drama of high quality, for which the terms riveting, mesmerising and spellbinding are not excessive.  Bleak and dark it may be, but from beyond that very bleakness emerges the satisfaction of witnessing the craft of staged drama at the top of its game.”
- Charlie Pugh, The Tolmen Centre, Constantine

The Uninvited is a story with a dark heart, told with innocence, love, brutality, and break-neck dialogue, where, in the end, an unlikely redemption is allowed to find a voice.

Her father knew they were mismatched, but she was stubborn.  A mere locksmith for a husband!  And now look at them, years later, bickering and divided…

How can his shop thrive when her “literary activities” make him a laughing-stock?  The audiences for her weekly Dickens readings bring in money!  He’s just trying to stifle her creative urges!

One day, a mysterious visitor arrives with a challenge for the Locksmith that might at last change his fortunes for the better. But his wife falls ill, and the Locksmith has to make a choice - a choice that will force him to face his deepest secret.

Poignant and heart-warming, The Locksmith’s Wife is a bittersweet tale of redemption in a blighted marriage.

The Locksmith’s Wife is supported by FEAST
FEAST is a new programme to make great art happen in Cornish villages and towns.  The ambition is to touch and inspire people of all ages and backgrounds and generate a whole new wave of creative activity in our communities.  There will be new opportunities for more people to enjoy events as audiences, but the focus will be on bringing people together to take part, and on animating local celebrations and cultural life. 
http://www.cornwallculture.co.uk/feast

“We are committed to producing new work, literary adaptations, and revivals of classic texts.  Our choice of projects is led by a search for material that will challenge us as artists and excite audiences both new and existing.  We have devoted ourselves to learning how theatre works, to discovering its essence.  We are passionate about exploring the connection between actors and audience.

With a simple and clean approach, our plays explore the emotional and psychological lives of characters within stories that are always designed to be relevant to our modern lives.  We are interested in how people live and behave, particularly when faced with extreme situations.”

cube are:
Benjamin Symes, Artistic Director
Ben Oldfield, Associate Artistic Director
Jon Welch, Associate Writer

Ben Shipway, Technical Director
Lottie Bowser, Stage Manager

Students at Truro School in The Mill on the Floss, adapted from George Eliot’s novel by Helen Edmundson, directed and produced by cube

cube is the Theatre Company in residence at Truro School
http://www.truroschool.com

We make theatre with and for young people.  Our work reflects the world we live in - all our plays are about real people dealing with extraordinary events.  We respond to the world around us - we choose stories and characters that speak to young people.

We work with students from secondary schools, colleges, universities and drama schools.  Our work with students derives from the plays in our repertoire.  This has been the basis of coursework for students of GCSE English, AS and A Level Drama, BTEC Performing Arts, and Foundation Arts Degree.

In our often indiscriminate information heavy environment, cube aims to use our projects to promote a greater sense of social, cultural and historical knowledge and, most importantly, to foster a search for wisdom. Always focussing our outreach programme on our current project, we will look for ways of promoting self-discovery, empowering both children and adults with improved skills and understanding.

We are fully equipped to deliver our education work; each of our directors has depth of experience in a variety of fields and our education officer has been delivering education and training for 9 years. We will also make use of the special skills of a variety of practitioners chosen for the purpose.

Education work is extremely important to us for two main reasons: firstly we believe passionately in creativity and its effects in creating a better community; and secondly, because this enables to build great theatrically and culturally literate audiences for the future.

To book a cube show, please contact , or call us on 07785 263499

We tour fully self-contained, with our own lighting and sound.  We are experienced at adapting to smaller, more challenging spaces.  For larger venues with their own lighting and sound facilities, we may want to contact you to discuss options.