Hello, Box Office

Picture this: a dystopian, not-too-distant future where Andrew Lloyd Webber has sole power and responsibility for investing in the UK theatre industry. Theatre venues are dying out and everyone is fighting for funding. Hello, Box Office is a brand new devised play which critiques the state of an underfunded UK arts landscape at breaking point. The latest funding cuts send shockwaves through the theatre community and three competing theatre box offices are pushed to fight to the death to survive. 

Hello, Box Office blends our own real experiences working in box offices with our signature absurdist performance style. We’re living in a time where the creative industry at large has been deeply impacted by funding cuts, recycled and outdated ideas and a lack of investment in new work with emerging talent. We hope Hello, Box Office will offer a reminder to everyone that theatre is essential to our cultural development.

We are Five Pigeons Pecking a Bin Bag – a theatre company that tells meaningful stories meaninglessly. Our work asks the big, uncomfortable questions and explores the juicy, unsavoury bits of humanity. We’re inspired by absurdist theatre and dark comedy, and use clowning as our vehicle to experiment with audience participation.  

We’ve been producing work for two years. Our debut show, PISS AND BILE, ‘a hilarious show about being sad in your twenties’, premiered at The Space Theatre in 2022 and was performed at Peckham Fringe Festival and Clapham Fringe the same year. In 2023 we produced a rough work in progress of squirrel, a one-woman-one-sock-puppet comedy at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, which was then developed and performed at The Space in 2024. We debuted a work-in-progress of Hello, Box Office at the Greenhouse theatre in 2023. Our first in-person scratch night, In The Loft, premiered at the end of 2023. We started this in lockdown with the aim of creating a safe space for other emerging writers to soundboard new work and get constructive feedback from other creatives.
 

Creative Team

Daniella Finch, Beth Wilson, Ted Marriott
Writers, performers, directors, producers