New Moon

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NEW MOON is a contemporary drama about a British Hindu family living in the wake of love, illness, and unfinished arguments. Two estranged sisters who were once inseparable and now are painfully divided are drawn back together as they care for their dying mother.

As her body weakens, old wounds surface, secrets slip their restraints, and blame is quietly passed between the generations. Above it all hangs a belief written in the stars;

                                  *the moon in the tenth house.*

Devastating and darkly funny, the play finds humour in the ordinary wounds of family life and tenderness in moments of unbearable truth. It traces an intimate path through grief and duty, and what is passed from mother to daughter.

NEW MOON asks what do we owe the people we love and how far we are willing to go to protect them. Can sisterhood remain when survival demands a cost?

Content warnings: references to suicide; depictions of terminal illness; references to sexual violence.