Home Death

Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights 2011 is our annual festival of Finborough Playwrights, running from 5-30 July 2011. In addition to Home Death the festival features a month long run of Nick Gill’s Mirror Teeth (originally seen as a staged reading in the very first Vibrant in 2009) together with a late night season of ten staged readings of ten new works for the stage by ten UK and international playwrights, discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre.

Home Death, a new play by Olivier Award winner Nell Dunn, will play for six performances only on Sunday and Monday evenings at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre.

In our materialist culture obsessed with youth, death has become the ultimate taboo. Inspired by real life stories, Home Death is an unflinching yet ultimately uplifting dissection of how our society deals with the reality of dying.

64% of us want to die at home, but in reality less than a quarter of us do. A lingering death in a hospital ward is one of the biggest fears of the elderly, and yet research from the Cicely Saunders Institute predicts that by 2030, if current trends continue, only one in ten of us will die at home.

Home Death is a courageous and profoundly compassionate new play that raises essential and urgent questions about palliative care in the UK, and celebrates the strength of friendship and love.

Home Death is supported by end of life care charity, Marie Curie Cancer Care, and the National Council for Palliative Care.