“I will be good”

The classic story of one puppet’s quest to become a real boy.  Along the way he falls in with an assortment of colourful characters, who all try to lead him astray – but in the end, courage and love will see him through.cube’s enchanting production delights children and adults alike. Pinocchio is a captivating tale, featuring spellbinding puppetry, original music, and a bundle of laughs!

Come and meet the puppets after the show!

For children 5-11 and their families.

Have a peek at our show trailer here!

A young woman attends her first ever audition. But entering the flat where the audition is being held, nothing is as she was expecting.

A witty and deeply moving play which charts the evolving relationship between an Italian immigrant in 1950’s New York and a brash teenager from the city. They each have secrets and it is only through the encounter between these two opposites that the layers unpeel.

Combining electric dialogue with a stunning soundscape and audio-visual effects, Wooden Heart moves from a hilarious first meeting to a heart-rending story of a broken man’s obsessive search. A tale of something lost and something to be found. Recommended 11+ years.

You can watch a trailer here.

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.

“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
Lottie Bowser, Stage Manager
Nix Wood, Associate Artist
Tod Welch, Associate Artist
Kitty Hughes, Apprentice

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.

This year we are developing our relationship with Helston Community College- working as Associate Theatre company to deliver school plays and enrichment activities.

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

For more information about our current touring shows and technical requirements, please visit our website for promoters:  www.2shows1tour.co.uk