In a new ATC and Bush Theatre co-production, Olivier Award winning Matthew Xia directs the world premiere of Titas Halder’s powerful play exploring the human cost of environmental catastrophe. 

I walk home. The skyline is changed.
The skeleton is fast becoming a huge metal creature.
They have built a behemoth here.

Bhopal. India. 1984.

Born under a blue sky in a city of lakes, a girl grows up with her father and sister. The three of them together, always.

But as she grows, the land begins to change. A giant factory rises over her town. Her mother always wanted more for them – now the girl wants more too.

Then comes the night that tears everything apart.

Ferocious, brutal and damning, this epic story of a life ravaged by ecological disaster.

Darkling is made possible with the support of Arts Council England, Cockayne Grants for the Arts, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation and the Wates Foundation.

*Image concept by Émilie Chen. Photography by Sebastian Nevols.