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First published in 2019 by Oberon Books Ltd

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Copyright Eve Leigh, 2019

Eve Leigh is hereby identified as author of this play in accordance with section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The author has asserted her moral rights.

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PB ISBN: 9781786827326

E ISBN: 9781786827302

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Contents

The Trick, produced by HighTide and Loose Tongue, in association with Bush Theatre, premiered at Bush Theatre on 19 February 2019 ahead of touring.

Cast:

Lachele Carl

Ani Nelson

Sharlene Whyte

David Verrey

Creative Team:
Director	Roy Alexander Weise
Set & Costume Designer	Jemima Robinson
Lighting Designer	Amy Mae
Sound Designer	Odinn Orn Hilmarsson
Movement Director	Jenni Jackson
Assistant Director	Thomas Bailey
Stage Manager	Julia Nimmo
Production Manager	Steve Watling

Production Sponsors

Lansons Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK

Special thanks to Tom, Mama, and David; Pippa Hill, Rjane Collard-Walker, Erica Whyman, and everyone at the RSC; Roy Alexander Weise; Matt Maltby, David Ralf, and everyone at Loose Tongue; Steven Atkinson, Francesca Clark, Robyn Keynes, Holly White, and everyone at HighTide; Stewart Pringle; the entire astonishing team at the Bush Theatre; Alison, Keith, Sam, and Charlie Penn, in whose front room most of this play was written; Stage One; Arts Council England; Angela Winter, Clare-Hope Ashitey, TNia Miller, and Richard Derrington; Jessica Stewart; and Daisaku Ikeda, for everything.

CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

Lachele Carl (1)

Lachele was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in Theatre from Point Park College. She lives and works in the UK.

Her theatre credits include: A Streetcar NamedDesire (Young Vic), Gods and Monsters (Southwark Playhouse), Theatre Festival (Theatre 503), Albans Gardens, The Notebook ofTrigorin (Finborough), and with The Chronic Love Dispensary, Life Mater and Penetration.

Television credits include: Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Mysteries, Ambassadors, The Honourable Woman, Modus 2, Holby City, Deep State and Into The Badlands.

Film credits include: Denial, Showdogs.

Ani Nelson (2)

Ani trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA). Her theatre credits include Abigails Party (Hull Truck Theatre), A Cratchit Christmas (Theatre 503), Underwater Love (Futures Theatre), The Revengers Tragedy (Rose Theatre Bankside), Game (Courtyard Theatre).

Television credits include: Roadkill (Channel 4).

Film credit include: Crooked House (Brilliant Films).

Sharlene Whyte (3)

Sharlene trained at RADA.

Her theatre credits include: Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre), As Good a Time As Any (Print Room), Wildefire (Hampstead Theatre), Nut (National Theatre), Treasure Island (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), Julius Caesar (Lyric Hammersmith), Born Bad (Hampstead), The Three Birds (Gate), Arabian Nights (Young Vic/ tour).

Television credits include: Home Alone 2, Casualty, Critical, Jonathan Creek: The Case of the Savants Thumb, Sadie J, Truckers, Run, Mightier Than the Sword, Spooks, The Undisclosed, Coronation Street, Doctors, Waterloo Road, Silent Witness, The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tinsel Town, My Hero, Burnside, As If, Other Peoples Children.

Film credits include: Second Coming, Video, Second Nature, High Heels and Low Lifes.

David Verrey (4)

Theatre credits include: Losing Venice (Orange Tree), Platonov, Ivanov (Chichester Festival Theatre and National Theatre), One Man Two Guvnors, The Recruiting Officer, The Madness of George III, The Coast of Utopia, England People Very Nice (National Theatre), Mirror Teeth (Finborough), The Years Between (Northampton), The Charming Man (Theatre503), Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights Dream (ESC), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Drums in the Night, Filumena (Manchester Library), Dead, Falstaff!, Dawn Made Myth, The 1985 Show, Shrivings (Edinburgh Festival), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Contact), The Comedy of Errors (RSC), The Tempest (Rose), The White Devil (Pentameters), The Merchant of Venice, Fiddler on the Roof, And Then There Were None (Wolsey, Ipswich), Measure for Measure, Macbeth (Theatre Unlimited), Lock Up Your Daughters (Belgrade, Coventry), A Midsummer Nights Dream (New End).

Television credits include: The Long Song, Doctors, Holby City, The Game, Doctor Who, Ripper Street, Garrows Law, Little Dorrit, Game of Thrones, Judge John Deed, Casanova, The Art of the Garden, Red Dwarf,

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