Blackbox follows the story of Henry Box Brown, a former slave who shipped himself to freedom. In collaboration with the playwright, we built a show that revolved around a magical realism aesthetic. Henry himself is a magician recanting his life for an audience. For the sound team, using music and thunderstorms, we wanted to sonically represent the successes, and failures, of  Henry from a magical realism perspective. The thunderstorm can be heard throughout the show, and is a representation of the ever present oppression that Henry stuggles with in his life. The music is used nondiegeticlly as a representation of the characters' emotinal states, and used diegeticlly to place the audience into the middle of a magic show.