LIFE BEFORE YOU

National Tour 2026

REMH Productions

“I can’t care for you when you’re like this — can’t love you when you’re like this — you need to be--- you need to be better.”
 

Gráinne leaves Ardoyne, Belfast, for England, chasing the promise of a better life for her daughter. She scrubs, she bleaches, she sacrifices— and piece by piece, she begins to disappear.
 

Eimear grows up surrounded by privilege, stepping through doors her mother could never open. But with every step forward, she drifts further away — into another class, another name, another life.
 

As they clash over diverging ideas of womanhood, what surfaces is complex and turbulent, straining their relationships — with themselves and with each other — to breaking point. 
 

Life Before You, a fierce and unflinching new play by Eva Hudson, directed by Roisin McCay-Hines, lays bare the fault lines between mothers and daughters. Addressing women’s healthcare, class, survival, and the erasure of aging women, it asks: what do we pass on, and how do we escape the lives written for us?

TOUR DATES:

BATH

Theatre Royal Bath, 12-14th Feb ​​

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EXETER

Exeter Northcott & Barnfield Theatres, 21st Feb

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CORNWALL

Sterts Arts Centre, 23rd Feb​

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CORNWALL

The Poly, 24th Feb

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CORNWALL

The Acorn, 25th Feb

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PLYMOUTH

Theatre Royal Plymouth, 26-28th Feb

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COLCHESTER

Mercury Theatre, 3rd March

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NORFOLK

The Corn Hall, 4th March

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BRISTOL

Tobacco Factory Theatres, 7th March

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BIRMINGHAM

Old Joint Stock, 8th March

Made possible by Arts Council England, Shakespeare at Tobacco Factory Fund and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. This production is proud to be supporting The Menopause Charity.