The Brum Runner

If you haven't read The Kite Runner, you don't deserve nice things. And as today is World Book Day, the first person to make it to our office can borrow our copy of the best-seller (they can't — and please don't come to our office, it'll get weird). Following two West End runs, the stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's sad, hopeful, beautiful novel returns to The Rep. Starting out on a blue-skied afternoon in Kabul with a kite-flying tournament, the story follows the very different journeys of Hassan and Amir as Afghanistan falls further into Taliban control. We saw playwright Matthew Spangler's production last time round, and we can basically guarantee both smiles and those glistening globules that fall from one's eyes. Go and see this, from March 13 to 24, tickets (£15).