The Long Trick

Written by Marietta Kirkbride.
Directed by Nel Crouch.

Kelsey. Teenager. Cornish born. Timid lover of anarchic music. Kelsey lives in a converted fishing boat moored on the Helford River, Cornwall. She is proud daughter to Tristan of Helford, the local myth who makes a living robbing all the nearby second homes. But then young Gale walks into their lives and Kelsey wakes up to who she really is. The outside world encroaches, and a delicate balance is knocked sideways in Tristan’s precarious world.

Marietta has been a Pentabus Theatre Young Writer and a writer-on-attachment at Bristol Old Vic through The Open Session.

Nel Crouch is Director of multi-award-winning company Bucket Club and has been a BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellow at Tobacco Factory Theatres and a Jerwood Assistant Director at the Young Vic.