The Wife of Willesden

<p><b>WINNER OF THE MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT AT THE CRITICS CIRCLE THEATRE AWARDS 2022 </b><br><br><i>'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.<br>She plays many roles round here. And never<br>Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether<br>Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife<br>Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life<br>Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .'<br></i> <br>Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, <i>The Wife of Willesden</i> is a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic <i>The Wife of Bath's Prologue</i>, brought to glorious life on the Kilburn High Road.<br><br><b>Commissioned to celebrate Brent's year as Borough of Culture 2020, <i>The Wife of Willesden</i> ran at the Kiln Theatre, London from November 2021 to January 2022.</b></p> <p><b>WINNER OF THE MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT AT THE CRITICS CIRCLE THEATRE AWARDS 2022 </b><br><br><i>'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.<br>She plays many roles round here. And never<br>Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether<br>Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife<br>Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life<br>Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .'<br></i> <br>Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, <i>The Wife of Willesden</i> is a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic <i>The Wife of Bath's Prologue</i>, brought to glorious life on the Kilburn High Road.<br><br><b>Commissioned to celebrate Brent's year as Borough of Culture 2020, <i>The Wife of Willesden</i> ran at the Kiln Theatre, London from November 2021 to January 2022.</b></p>