The Wife of Willesden
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Zadie Smith

A proper local legend.

Married five times.

Mother.

Lover.

Aunt.

Friend.

Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her game.

The question is: are you ready to hear it?

Because this woman’s got the gift of the gab: she can rewrite mistakes into triumphs, turn pain into parables, and her love life’s an epic poem.

They call her The Wife of Willesden… A play that celebrates the human knack for telling elaborate tales, especially about our own lives.

Critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, best-selling author Zadie Smith‘s The Wife of Willesden transports Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath to 21st Century North West London.