UNDER THE SHADOW

About the show

They travel on the wind, just like that missile, and they only land once they find someone to possess. Babak Anvari’s BAFTA-winning horror film is reimagined by Carmen Nasr in this “terrifying and timely” (The Telegraph) stage adaptation. “Leila Farzad is fantastic” (The Guardian) in this “dark universal parable” (Time Out), “beautifully realised by director Nadia Latif” (WhatsOnStage). When Shideh’s husband is conscripted to serve on the frontline, she is left alone with her young daughter as Tehran is bombed. As the missiles strike, something more ancient and malevolent is carried on the wind. The world premiere of this “vivid, unnerving vision of the Iran-Iraq war” (Financial Times), explores the boundary between the rational and the irrational, and the question of whether to leave or stay.