Night Waking
A darkly funny and deeply unsettling one-woman play, Night Waking is an urgent, razor-sharp meditation on motherhood, colonialism, and the things we leave behind. Catch it at The Byre Theatre!
About Night Waking
| 19th October 2025 | |
| 7pm | |
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The Byre Theatre St Andrews University of St Andrews Abbey Street , St Andrews KY16 9LA |
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| Pay What You Can £17.00 / £15.00 / £13.00 | |
| Visit the event website here | |
A remote Scottish island. A sleep-deprived mother. A grave you were never meant to find.
Anna Bennett should be writing a book. Instead, she’s counting the minutes of lost sleep, peeling a toddler off her leg, and Googling ‘Victorian infanticide’ at 3 am.
Her ornithologist husband is out studying puffins, oblivious. Her sons are running feral. And when she and her eldest uncover something in the garden – something small, something wrapped in wool – it becomes clear that history isn’t just a thing she studies. It’s here. Underfoot. And it won’t rest quietly.
Night Waking is a sharp, strange, and darkly funny exploration of motherhood, colonialism, and the ghosts we inherit. As Anna ricochets between present-day exhaustion, historical letters, and a past that won’t stay buried, she is forced to confront what it means to nurture, to protect, and to fail.
Adapted from Sarah Moss’s novel by Shireen Mula, this one-woman play is a feat of acting virtuosity – a fragmented, fevered journey through sleepless nights, long-lost voices, and the things we don’t say.
For anyone who has ever craved silence but feared what might fill it.
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