Home, I'm Darling

By Laura Wade.

The perfect home. The perfect wife. The perfect lie?

Welcome to the picture-perfect world of Judy and Johnny - the married couple living in 1950s domestic bliss. Step into their immaculate kitchen, the wafting scent of freshly baked bread, and marital heaven. For this couple, their fantasy becomes their reality when they decide to abandon modernity and embrace tradition. No matter the cost.

Laura Wade’s award-winning dark comedy Home, I’m Darling asks what happens when we choose to live by an ideal. As Judy strives to be the perfect housewife, the boundaries between freedom and conformity, choice and expectation, begin to blur. Behind their polished appearance lies a question that is far less comfortable: how much of ourselves are we willing to sacrifice for the lives we think we want?

With sharp humour, nostalgic charm, and commentary on the world of tradwives and choice feminism, Home, I’m Darling explores the risks we take when we idealise a world we never lived in.