
Recommended for ages 12+
Performance dates
9 December 2025 - 28 February 2026
Run time: TBC
Includes interval
Two time Olivier Award-winner, Sheridan Smith (Gavin and Stacey), and BAFTA-winning comedian, Romesh Ranganathan (Rob & Romesh vs…) star in Alan Ayckbourn’s psychological drama, Woman in Mind. Playing at the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited engagement, book your official tickets today.
Audiences are drawn into the fractured consciousness of Susan, a woman whose seemingly ordinary life unravels after she sustains a bump to the head. From that moment, her world divides into two distinct realities: one bleak and mundane, filled with emotional distance and frustration, and another gloriously imagined - an idyllic world where she is cherished, admired, and adored by a perfect family. As these two worlds begin to overlap, the boundaries between truth and fantasy blur with unsettling intensity.
Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind is a masterful psychological drama that explores identity, isolation, and the silent despair that can lurk beneath suburban normality. Through sharp wit and poignant emotion, the play leads the audience deep into Susan’s mind, where illusion becomes refuge, and her undoing.

Sheridan Smith will return to the West End this winter in a major new production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind. Directed by Michael Longhurst, the play opens at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 9 December 2025, running until 28 February 2026, before heading on tour.
Ayckbourn’s groundbreaking psychological comedy follows Susan, who suffers a bump to the head and suddenly finds herself living in two overlapping worlds—one ordinary, the other imagined. As reality and fantasy collide, the play offers a witty yet unsettling look at identity, family, and the need for escape.
18 Sep, 2025 | By Hay Brunsdon
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