What's In My Box submission. There is an abandoned mental hospital on 122 Hampshire Road. If you venture there after dark on the last Thursday of the month, feeling curious and looking for answers, walk on in.

Many Moons By Alice Birch Paper Scissors Stone Theatre503 Review by Tobias Chapple (2011) So you have four people on a stage: one old, one pregnant, one girlish and young, one geeky and young. An elderly man worried about his health while obsessively reciting trivia; a brittle housewife who seems eerily preoccupied with making loaves of bread; a ditsy girl looking to fall in love with anyone and who can't stop smiling; a shut-in 20s something male trying to fit in even though he only really cares about supernovas. In a sense, the set-up of Many Moons is simple: four characters who talk about themselves and we begin to learn more about them and about why these four characters in particular are being heard. What's interesting here is that, as we get a sense for each of the characters, so comes an unexpected ugliness: this is not a polite play. Attuned to issues of online communication, sexual frustration and social pressure, Alice Birch here signs a fascinating, confrontational and all too human play. At first these characters seem only superficially related, finishing off their sections with the same phrases, talking about love and hearts, but we begin to realise...