A Thousand Splendid Suns

Following its 2025 sell-out run, this powerful and extraordinary production of Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, comes back to Leeds.

Birmingham Rep presents its powerful production of Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, which has sold over 38 million copies worldwide and is Hosseini’s spiritual sequel to The Kite Runner.

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, 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.

Directed by Kimberly Sykes.

Design © Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.