Parents’ Evening

＂Would you please remember that it’s not us they’re assessing.＂

She’s been disruptive in class. She’s rude to the teachers. And now she wants to learn the trumpet. But whose performance is really being judged? A mother and father prepare to discuss their daughter’s progress at the local primary school, but their rare opportunity for some quality time together begins to test the bonds of love, work and family.

Charged, passionate and surprising, Parents’ Evening is a fierce and funny play about modern marriage and parenthood. This European premiere marks the homecoming of a major British talent already acclaimed in America.

Bathsheba Doran’s plays include The Mystery Of Love And Sex (premier at Lincoln Center in 2015), Kin (premier at Playwrights Horizons), and Parents’ Evening (premier at The Flea Theater), Living Room In Africa (premier off-Broadway with Edge Theater), Ben And The Magic Paintbrush (South Coast Repertory), Nest (Signature Theater, DC), Until Morning (BBC Radio 4) and adaptations of Dickens’ Great Expectations, Maeterlinck’s The Blind, and Peer Gynt. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, a Lecomte du Nouy Lincoln Center Playwriting Award, and is a Susan Smith Blackburn Award finalist. Kin received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. She also writes film and television and is a WGA nominee for her work on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. She was born in London and lives in New York. BA Cambridge University, MFA, Columbia University, Juilliard School.