top of page

Mrs. Cratchit

Everyone knows Bob Cratchit’s story. But what about his wife, Emily’s?

From the writer and director of Laroche and The Narcissist comes a candlelit, gothic reimagining of Dickens’ most loyal wife, not as a background figure, but as the beating heart of a forgotten home.

It is Christmas Eve. The fire burns low. The children are asleep. And Emily Cratchit — mother, wife, survivor — speaks.

As she kneads dough with aching hands and patches threadbare clothes by flickering light, memories stir like ghosts: of love and loss, of hunger and rage, of all the quiet, unseen work it takes to hold a family together while the world forgets your name.

Mrs. Cratchit: A Christmas Past is a haunting one-woman performance told in whispers, warmth, and shadow. It is not just a retelling.

It is a reckoning.

The Apple

Every civilisation begins with a story. Ours began with a lie.

The Apple reimagines the biblical story of Adam and Eve inside a modern workplace. When a supervisor accidentally leaves behind a laptop containing confidential promotion decisions, two colleagues, Adam and Eve, resist the temptation to look.

But after Eve leaves the room, Adam opens the file and discovers that she has been chosen for the promotion they both wanted.What follows is not a confession, but a lie. One that quietly reshapes relationships, reputations, and institutional truth.

Guided by a cynical mentor and driven by wounded entitlement, Adam begins to rewrite the story of what happened.

Minimalist, intimate, and unsettlingly familiar, The Apple explores ambition, power, and the dangerous stories we tell to protect ourselves.

CASTING SOON!
Eat a Red Apple Day Design (4)_edited.jp

The Bodacious Baddies

Bad women doing bad things

Sharp, subversive, and unapologetically mischievous, this production explores the lives of women who refuse to stay in their place. Through a series of twisted and darkly humorous stories, Bodacious Baddies introduces audiences to characters who break rules, blur moral lines, and revel in the chaos they create.

Darkly funny, provocative, and unapologetically wicked, the piece explores the lives of women who refuse to behave the way society expects them to. Through a series of twisted, darkly comic stories, Bodacious Baddies introduces audiences to women who break rules, cross lines, and challenge the boundaries between right and wrong.

 

Blending dark comedy with sharp social observation, the production examines power, morality, revenge, and the complicated ways women navigate a world that often demands they be anything but dangerous.
 

CASTING SOON!

New LOGO.png

Stay in the Loop


© 2026 by The Birmingham Black Box. All images are copyright by their respective owners.

 

bottom of page