20/10/2025
🌙 An Tobar and Mull Theatre presents
NIGHT WAKING
By Shireen Mula, adapted from the novel by Sarah Moss
Directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord
🏝️ 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 a.m. Her husband’s off studying puffins, her sons are running feral—and then she and her eldest uncover something in the garden. Something small. Something wrapped in wool.
What follows is a sharp, strange, and darkly funny exploration of motherhood, colonialism, and the ghosts we inherit. As Anna ricochets between exhaustion, historical letters, and a past that refuses to stay buried, she’s forced to confront what it means to nurture, protect, and fail.
Adapted from Sarah Moss’s acclaimed novel, Night Waking is a one-woman tour de force—a fragmented, fevered journey through sleepless nights, long-lost voices, and the things that won’t stay hidden.
For anyone who’s ever craved silence… but feared what might fill it.
🎭 Age guidance: 12+
⏱️ Running time: 2 hours plus interval
Tickets available on our website
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