This award-nominated play from Michèle Winstanley shines a light on the untold experiences and the irrepressible resilience of women. Living on the same London street, three ordinary women with three different perspectives tell a similar story.

Olive misses her absent son. Philippa wonders what to do with her empty nest. Linda just wants what her neighbours have.

As each woman’s story unfolds, we learn that between the rock of having children and the hard place of not having them, lies a kind of love that can make you lose your bearings. A humorous, touching and insightful story about the highs and lows of life’s greatest celebrations and darkest tragedies, Broken Water shines a light on the untold experiences and the irrepressible resilience of women.

Developed at Arcola as part of the 2014 Playwrought Festival, the play was shortlisted for the 2013 Verity Bargate Award. Now it premieres in a powerful new production at the Arcola studio directed by Nicola Samer.