Nine Night Tickets at the Kiln Theatre
Gloria has died, and her family has nine nights to see her off, with rum, curry, old grudges and a few secrets. Natasha Gordon's comedy about grief returns in a new production.
- Price
- From £15 all-in
- Running time
- TBC
- Age
- 12+
- Venue
- Kiln Theatre, near Brondesbury
- Performances
- Mon to Sat 7:30pm, Wed and Sat 2:30pm
- Closes
- 2 January 2027
Prices live · Page updated 13 November 2026
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020 7193 9050 · Monday to Saturday 8am to 8pm, Sunday 10am to 8pm
Help choosing your seat
What Tickets Cost
Tickets start from around £20 and go up to around £55. Previews, from 12 to 19 November, are the cheapest dates. All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.
Special Offer on selected dates from 23 November. Offer dates have a dot.
Next available
- Sat 21 Nov · 7:30pm from £19
- Mon 23 Nov · 7:30pm, offer date from £15
- Tue 24 Nov · 7:30pm, offer date from £15
- Wed 25 Nov · 2:30pm, offer date from £15
- Wed 25 Nov · 7:30pm, offer date from £35
Prices and dates checked 13 November 2026
Performance Schedule
| Day | Matinee | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 7:30pm | |
| Tuesday | 7:30pm | |
| Wednesday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Thursday and Friday | 7:30pm | |
| Saturday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Sunday | No performance |
Matinees start on Wednesday 25 November. The first night is Friday 20 November at 7pm. Over Christmas there are no performances from 24 to 28 December or on New Year's Day, and New Year's Eve is a 2:30pm matinee only. The last performance is Saturday 2 January 2027 at 7:30pm.
Book Your Nine Night Tickets
Tickets from around £20, for a seven-week run that ends on 2 January. All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.
Book tickets • Call us on 020 7193 9050
Where to Sit
The Kiln has 292 seats in the Stalls and the Circle, with extra seats down the sides of both. In the Stalls, rows E to K are the pick, central and at a good height for the stage. In the Circle, the first couple of rows are best. The side seats cost less and you watch from an angle, but in a theatre this size you're still close.
What's Nine Night About?
Gloria came to London from Jamaica as a young woman. Now she has died at home, and her family is holding a Nine Night, the traditional Jamaican wake, where the house stays open, people keep arriving with food and drink, and on the last night the spirit is sent on its way.
Lorraine gave up her job to nurse her mother and is doing all the cooking. Her brother Robert has a business to run and a wife, Sophie, who is trying hard to fit in. Lorraine's daughter Anita doesn't think much of the old customs. Then Trudy, the daughter Gloria left behind in Jamaica, arrives, and Auntie Maggie, who has firm views on God, food and cremation, takes charge of the rituals.
It's funny from start to finish, and it's still a play about losing your mum.
Who's Nine Night For?
Anyone who enjoys a family comedy with real feeling underneath, and anyone who saw it at the National Theatre or in the West End in 2018 and wants to see it again with a new cast. You don't need to know anything about Jamaican customs. The family explain them to each other, and argue about them, as they go.
It's for 12 and over. There's swearing, some mild threat, and the themes are grief, illness, family and pregnancy.
Nine Night News and Reviews
Nine Night opened at the National Theatre's Dorfman in April 2018 and sold out, then moved to Trafalgar Studios in the West End that December, with Gordon herself playing Lorraine. That transfer made her the first Black British woman to have a play staged in the West End. Gordon was named most promising playwright at the Evening Standard Awards and the Critics' Circle Awards, and the play was up for an Olivier.
The 2018 reviews were full of Aunt Maggie, who was the funniest thing in it for most critics. In the Guardian, Michael Billington wrote that "the joy of the play is that it is exuberantly funny while arguing that it is possible to dwell in seemingly antithetical worlds."
This is a new production, with a new director and cast. Previews start on 12 November and the first night is 20 November, so the reviews for this one will follow after that.
Cast and Creative Team
Llewella Gideon plays Auntie Maggie. You'll know her from EastEnders, Mr Loverman and Queenie, and from the films Rye Lane and Paddington.
Javone Prince plays Robert. He's a BAFTA nominee, best known for PhoneShop and The Javone Prince Show, and he was in Loot at the Kiln.
Dani Moseley plays Lorraine. She was Amy in the BBC's Dreaming Whilst Black.
Sonya Cassidy plays Sophie, with screen credits including Reacher and Humans.
Estella Daniels plays Trudy, Ava Hinds-Jones plays Anita and Gary McDonald plays Uncle Vincent.
Directed by Amit Sharma, the Kiln's Artistic Director, whose Retrograde went from here to the West End. Set and costumes by Libby Watson, lighting by Rory Beaton, sound and music by Mwen, and movement by Kloé Dean.
Getting to the Kiln Theatre
The Kiln is at 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR. Kilburn station on the Jubilee line is 5 to 7 minutes away: turn right out of the station and walk down Kilburn High Road. Brondesbury, on the London Overground, is closer, 3 to 5 minutes the same way, but has no lift. Kilburn High Road Overground station is further, about 12 to 15 minutes' walk.
The 16, 32, 189 and 316 stop at Buckley Road, right by the theatre, and the 98 stops on Willesden Lane, two or three minutes away. Parking nearby is limited, so public transport is the easier way in.
More in our Kiln Theatre guide.
Accessible Performances
- BSL: Tuesday 8 December, 7:30pm
- Captioned: Thursday 3 and Tuesday 22 December, 7:30pm
- Relaxed: Saturday 12 December, 2:30pm
- Audio described, with a touch tour beforehand: Thursday 17 December, 7:30pm
Both entrances and the Stalls are step-free. Access bookings and access tickets are handled by the Kiln's own team, not by us.
Accessible performances
- Relaxed performances: Sat 12 Dec 2026, 2:30pm
- Captioned performances: Thu 3 Dec 2026, 7:30pm
- Audio described performances: Thu 17 Dec 2026, 7:30pm
Access bookings are handled by the venue's own access team, not by us.
Nine Night FAQs
How long is Nine Night?
The Kiln hasn't published a running time for this production yet.
What is a Nine Night?
A Jamaican wake that lasts for the nine nights after someone dies. Family and friends gather at the house to eat, drink and remember, and on the final night the spirit is sent on its way. The whole play takes place during one.
Is Nine Night a comedy?
Yes, though it's about a death in the family. In 2018 it was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
Who wrote Nine Night?
Natasha Gordon. She was an actor first, and had been on stage at this theatre in its Tricycle days, in Red Velvet. Nine Night was the first play she wrote.
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