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The Unbelievers

3.0/5· 1 log

Royal Court Theatre · London

Premiered 2025 at Royal Court Theatre

A teenager disappears and his mother refuses to believe that he is gone.

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The story

Nick Payne’s play follows a family after the disappearance of a teenage boy, with Nicola Walker playing the mother who continues to hold onto hope. Time and memory fracture around the family as the play explores motherhood, faith and what happens when certainty becomes impossible. Marianne Elliott directs.

In the room

An emotionally concentrated family drama told through a disrupted sense of time rather than a straightforward missing-person thriller. The disappearance drives the story, but the focus is on the people left behind and the different ways they live with uncertainty.

Good fit if you like

intimate family dramas, nonlinear storytelling and plays about grief, memory and the things people need to believe.

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From 10 Oct 2025

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