Home, I'm Darling

Playwright Laura Wade has form with sharp, cruel comedy about class and social status, having written Posh, which ran to critical acclaim at the Royal Court and in the West End before being made into a film. Her latest piece, Home, I'm Darling is a comic-yet sad exploration of women's roles in society which challenges audiences to contemplate the repercussions of a woman's choice in the way she lives her life.

The play opens on Anna Fleischle's bright, bold 1950s set as Judy (Katharine Parkinson) prepares breakfast for her husband Johnny (Richard Harrington), in an impossible-seeming, near-parodic representation of mid-20th century domestic bliss. Packing his lunchbox for him, she waves him off, sits down at the kitchen table, pulls open a drawer and lifts out a MacBook. Things are not as they seem.