We Had A World (2026)

"Are there any grandchildren here, sitting beside your grandmothers?
A word of advice: take good notes. Things are
changing so fast. New York doesn't get much snow these days, and most of the movie theatres Nana took me to are gone. Rainforests, glaciers... it was too beautiful to last. But we had it, for a time. And each other. That will have to be enough."

Joshua Harmon’s deeply personal and searingly funny play brings to the Hampstead Theatre stage his New York childhood, caught between his hilariously eccentric but indomitable grandmother and his mother. His grandmother’s influence shapes him as both a person and an artist, but as he traces the family’s relationships, he uncovers their secrets, revealing thirty years of family fights, monstrous behaviour, enormous cruelty and enduring love.

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