Midnight's Children - Stage Version

In the moment of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14-15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born - each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers

Midnight's Children focuses on the fates of two of them - the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman, and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family - who became inextricably linked when a midwife witches the boys at birth

An allegory of modern India, this is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country's independence - the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law

It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for indentity and belonging that links personal life with national history

In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage