Birmingham Rep Presents
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Following its 2025 sell-out run, we’re excited to announce the return of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns.
In 1992 in an Afghanistan ravaged by war, an orphaned Laila is left alone in an increasingly threatening world. Her older neighbour Rasheed is quick to open his home and takes Laila as his second wife.
Rasheed’s first wife Mariam has no choice but to accept her younger, and now pregnant, rival. As the Taliban take over, life for all of them becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, and the two women find themselves unlikely allies.
★★★★
An essential piece of modern theatre”
WhatsOnStage, on The Rep’s 2025 production
A triumph of theatrical storytelling”
Best of Birmingham
★★★★★
A gorgeous story of survival”
Voice Magazine, on The Rep’s 2025 production