A Thousand Splendid Suns

Recommended age 14+ A Thousand Splendid Suns is a new production of Khaled Hosseini’s highly acclaimed and award-winning novel. It is adapted for the stage by Ursula Rani Sarma and directed by Roxanna Silbert. An epic and beautiful story of love, friendship and hope against adversity, A Thousand Splendid Suns centres around the lives of two women in Afghanistan spanning from the 1960s to early 2000s. Much of the story is set against the background of war and invasion in Kabul. The story contains sensitive content including violence, sexual assault, domestic abuse, murder, death, trauma, miscarriage, suicide, underage marriage and misogyny plus some strong and offensive language. If you would like to read more about how these specific topics feature, please see below for details: War Depictions and descriptions of war run throughout the play. Scenes include death, grief, the displacement