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'It's funny what people do and what they tell. We're all hiding bits of ourselves. The bits we're not proud of. I can see that now.'
It's Friday night and Franky is back at her local pub for the first time in a year. Drinks are poured and karaoke is starting, but her return stirs something that has been crackling underneath the noise.
Haunted by grief, Franky's family quietly unravel around her, and buried secrets leak through the cracks in every room.
A bittersweet, tender exploration of the long trail of grief and the fickleness of memory, Kit Withington's play Heart Wall asks where we go when home has become somewhere you don't know. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Katie Greenall.
It's Friday night and Franky is back at her local pub for the first time in a year. Drinks are poured and karaoke is starting, but her return stirs something that has been crackling underneath the noise.
Haunted by grief, Franky's family quietly unravel around her, and buried secrets leak through the cracks in every room.
A bittersweet, tender exploration of the long trail of grief and the fickleness of memory, Kit Withington's play Heart Wall asks where we go when home has become somewhere you don't know. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Katie Greenall.
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Reviews
"'Why can't all new plays be more like this one? Kit Withington's new work is an intimate, imaginative and surprising story about family and grief... a sad and funny and scrappy and surprising and never, ever boring new play... one of the glories of this play is that it feels very personal and also that the playwright offers rich empathy to each and every character... Withington depicts the strange, stubborn shadows that grief can cast with great skill, huge heft and pub singsongs too'"
The Times
"'A thoughtful and bittersweet play, with touching and believable dialogue... poignant and thought-provoking'"
WhatsOnStage
"'A slow-burning drama that satisfyingly blends humour, heart and melancholy... well observed dialogue, full of unforced humour and recognisable twangs of dialect... twists that arrive with impressive emotional force'"
The Stage
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- SeriesNHB Modern Plays