upcoming shows 🐞
🎨 Karl Gilbert
"if they love me and I love them, surely they will love each other..." sometimes friends shouldn’t meet, especially when they're scattering your ashes in the welsh countryside.
ladybird's presents kindling at the Park Theatre
22 oct - 15 nov
kindling, written by our very own ladybird, sarah rickman, follows five perimenopausal women as they embark on their friend Mei’s final wish; scattering her ashes in the redwood forest of Wales. if only they knew, let alone liked one another. connected only by their shared grief, what begins as an opportunity to bond, quickly descends into chaos. lost, without shelter or signal, drenched by a sudden storm, surrounded by strange noises and celtic beasts, and fuelled only by soggy baguettes, warm wine, forgotten HRT and 90’s club classics; unspoken rivalries and secrets, old and new, soon come to the surface. kindling is a hilarious and poignant story of friendship, loss, resentment and ultimately hope.
