Hampstead Theatre have announced further productions for their 2021 season, including an Olivier-award winning play and a world premiere. 

Returning to Hampstead Theatre following her recent 60th anniversary production of The Dumb Waiter is Alice Hamilton, directing the poignant and painfully funny comedy The Memory of Water. 

The Memory of Water is an Olivier award-winning play by Shelagh Stephenson, which originally premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. The play will run from 3 September-16 October 2021. The show will be with a socially distanced capacity until 25 September when they are hoping to increase audience numbers. 

Mufaro Makubika’s Malindadzimu will receive its world premiere at Hampstead Downstairs from 17 September-30 October 2021. This delicate and witty play explores a mother and daughter’s search for belonging.

Malindadzimu will be directed by Monique Touko who will be making her professional debut. It will remain socially distanced capacity through its run. 

Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre, Roxanna Silbert, said; “I am delighted to be announcing The Memory of Water by one of our pioneering female playwrights, Shelagh Stephenson.  This Olivier Award-winning funny, timeless and vibrant play offers three female actors great roles as sisters who come together and behave outrageously, sorting out their family home in the wake of their mother’s death.  

Downstairs, twenty-five years later, another Hampstead commission premieres.  Monique Touko makes her professional debut as a director of Mufaro Makubika’s Malindadzimu, a beautiful investigation of dual identity told through the relationship between a mother and daughter.” 

Tickets will go on sale from Thursday 29 July at 10.30am here.