The production will run at the Soho Theatre in Walthamstow from the 15th June until the 10th July 2027.
It has been announced the London debut of the Australian Sri Lankan epic Counting and Cracking, a Belvoir St Theatre and Kurinji co-production presented as part of LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) at Soho Theatre Walthamstow will be staged next June.
The news follows the show’s sell-out seasons in Sydney, and following its acclaimed international journey through Edinburgh and Birmingham in 2022 and a celebrated New York season in 2024.
On the banks of a suburban Sydney river, Radha and her son Siddhartha gather to release the ashes of Radha’s mother. When a phone call arrives from Colombo, a remarkable family story comes vividly to life. Moving between Sri Lanka and Australia, from 1956 to 2004, Counting and Cracking follows one Sri Lankan-Australian family across generations. Told with warmth, humour and breathtaking theatricality, it is a story of family, identity, love and the ties that connect us.
Written by S. Shakthidharan with Eamon Flack and directed by Flack and Shakthidharan, Counting and Cracking will officially open at the Soho Theatre on the 18th June 2027.
Explaining about the show S. Shakthidharan, Writer and Associate Director, said: “At this moment in our world’s history, we need stories like Counting and Cracking more than ever. Stories that remind us of our capacity to love across difference, to listen to each other’s truths and to keep our democracies alive. For the story of my family and my community to be part of that conversation, and to share it with audiences in London, is something truly extraordinary.”
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