by Lucy Kirkwood

A remote coastal house. Three adults. And something quietly, deeply wrong.

In The Children, Lucy Kirkwood crafts a taut, unsettling portrait of lives lived in the shadow of an unnamed disaster. Old friends reunite under strained circumstances, their shared past crackling with unresolved choices and unspoken guilt. As the outside world feels increasingly unstable, so too do the fragile bonds between them.

What begins as polite reconnection sharpens into something far more dangerous—questions of responsibility, sacrifice, and survival rising to the surface. Who pays the price when everything falls apart? And what do we owe the next generation?

Eerie, intimate, and laced with dark humour, The Children draws you into a quiet storm where every word matters—and every silence hides something more.

Contains mild adult humour and references to suicide.

This amateur production of THE CHILDREN is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.