Birmingham Rep\u2019s stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini\u2019s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns broke box-office records and became one of the venue\u2019s highest attended drama productions.<\/p>\n
The Rep\u2019s production, which was adapted by Ursula Rani Sarma, received standing ovations when it opened in April 2025, with more than 19,000 audience members going through the Rep\u2019s door\u2019s during the play\u2019s three-week run.<\/p>\n
A Thousand Splendid Suns<\/a> attracted more than 14,500 people at Leeds Playhouse and 10,000 at Nottingham Playhouse, the two theatres that co-produced the show, making a total of more than 43,000 audience members across the UK.<\/p>\n Set in war-torn Afghanistan in 1992, A Thousand Splendid Suns is \u201cthe unflinching story of survival, resilience and strength of human spirit\u201d. A number of Rep productions have embodied the theatre\u2019s commitment to bringing South Asian stories to its stages, including Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti\u2019s Marriage Material<\/a> and Farrah Chaudhry\u2019s Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n Birmingham Rep chief executive Rachael Thomas said, \u201cthe audience response to A Thousand Splendid Suns was incredibly pleasing for us, with every performance sold out and our waiting lists at maximum capacity.<\/p>\n \u201cOur aim at the Rep is to tell stories that are relevant to all the people of Birmingham and we were thrilled that this production resonated so deeply with our audiences and garnered such wonderfully positive comments after every performance.<\/p>\n \u201cWe attracted a lot of visitors who\u2019d never previously been to the Rep, many of them afterwards telling us how much they\u2019d enjoyed the whole experience. As a producing theatre, our hugely talented team built everything in the show\u2014from the beautifully painted set to the props and costumes\u2014in our own workshops here at the Rep. This production really proved that the Rep is a theatre for the whole city and all its residents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Rep\u2019s stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini\u2019s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns broke box-office records and became one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-282453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}