A powerful new production of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini’s spiritual sequel to The Kite Runner.

A huge success at Nottingham Playhouse in 2025 when we originally co-produced it, Birmingham Rep presents the return
of its powerful production of Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. The book 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, 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.

Show Trailer (2025 production)

Production Photos

Schools and Groups

Groups

Groups of 10 or more can save up to 20% on full price tickets.

Discount will be automatically applied on the ‘Checkout’ screen. Book up to 20 tickets online with the groups discount, discounts vary per performance and are subject to availability. Group discounts can only be applied on tickets in Bands A and B.

See the list of discounted performances on the Group Discounts Page.

Have a large group looking to attend? Please email tickets@nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk and a member of the team will be able to assist.

Schools

Show tickets for school pupils are £14 each (one teacher goes free with every 10 tickets purchased). Find out more about School Visits here and book by calling Box Office on 0115 941 9419.

Access

We provide British Sign Language Interpretation, Relaxed Performance, Captioning and Audio Description for this production.

Everyone is welcome to attend accessible performances, customers experience the full show including the accessible services.

Find out more about Access at Nottingham Playhouse here.

This is a Green Book production. Find out more about Green Book.