A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered suitcases. From them, whole worlds emerge… Renowned for inventive staging, Trick of the Light guide us through dark comedic tales told via lo-fi shadow play, dancing hands and a 70s stereo.

Suitcase Show is an eclectic box set of short stories. Dark, spiky, and comic, each one is told out of a suitcase. The staging is inventive, from lo-fi shadow play to wireless projection, from dancing disembodied hands to narratives that crackle from a 70s stereo suitcase.

Tiny in scale, but expansive in story, Suitcase Show 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. The work was developed through a series of showings in unusual site-specific spaces, from a pub to a photography darkroom.

Supported by: Cutting Edge